Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century

Chamion Caballero is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. She has published widely on issues of racial mixing and mixedness and along with Peter Aspinall and Bradley Lincoln is Co-Founder and Director of the Mix-d Museum, an online archive recording and sharing the history of racial mixing in Britain. Peter J. Aspinall is Emeritus Reader at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include 75 papers on race and ethnicity and several books, including Mixed Race Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He was ONS National Convenor for the ethnicity question in the ONS 2001 Census Development Programme.

“In Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century, Chamion Caballero and Peter J. Aspinall critically investigate newly discovered archives, photographs, first-hand lived experiences and existing academic literature to present an unprecedentedly comprehensive history of racial mixing in Britain. … Overall, the book is an invaluable contribution to the study of the mixed race population in the British context.” (Ivana Chen, LSE Review of Books, July 24, 2019)

• 1. Introduction .- Section 1: 1900-1939: The March to Moral Condemnation .- 2. ‘Disharmony of Physical, Mental and Temperamental Qualities’: Race Crossing, Miscegenation and the Eugenics Movement .- 3. Mixed Race Communities and Social Stability .- 4. ‘Unnatural Alliances’ and ‘Poor Half-Castes’: Representations of Racial Mixing and Mixedness and the Entrenching of Stereotypes .- 5. Fitting In and Standing Out: Lived Experiences of Everyday Interraciality .- Section 2: 1939-1949: The Second World War - The Early Post-War Years .- 6. 'Tan Yanks’, ‘Loose Women’ and ‘Brown Babies’: Official Concerns About Racial Mixing and Mixedness During the Second World War .- 7. ‘Undesirable Element': The Repatriation of Chinese Sailors and Break up of Mixed Families in the 1940s .- 8. Convivality, Hostility and Ordinariness: Everyday Lives and Emotions in the Second World War and Early Post-War Years .- Section 3: 1950-1979: The Era of Mass Immigration .-9. Redefining Race: UNESCO, the Biology of Race Crossing, and the Wane of the Eugenics Movement .- 10. The Era of Mass Immigration and Widespread Population Mixing .- 11. ‘Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Black Man?’ - Representation and Lived Experiences in the Post-War Period .- Section 4: 1980-2000: The Move to Social and Official Acceptance and Recognition .- 12. The Emergence of the 'New Wave': Insider-Led Studies and Multifaceted Perceptions. - 13. Social Acceptance, Official Recognition and Membership of the British Collectivity .- 14. A Postscript to the Twentieth Century: Mainstream and Celebrated Limitations, and Counter-Narratives