Jenna Arrindell-Carty interviews mixed race, Marvin Rees – the first elected Mayor of Bristol.
How has being mixed-raced/mixed-heritage impacted your journey to becoming the first elected mayor of Bristol?
Mixed Race Matters
New Creatives – Where are you from
Sophie Gresswell’s film addresses the struggle to answer the inevitable question: ‘Where are you from?’ when you’re not quite sure. A young woman of mixed heritage searches for an answer by looking back over three generations of her family. Documents, family stories and of course the British staple of tea and biscuits help her figure …
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic support
PIH FRIDAY NIGHT EDUCATION HUB EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT ZOOM 7:30 pm – 8:10 pm & 8:10pm – 8:50pm Are you, or do you know someone is trying to home educate their children and finding it hard? PIH has set up a weekly ZOOM group for those of us at home with their children …
Not looking like your parents
As a society we are increasingly mixed, and the mixed-race group is growing proportionately faster than any other. Many children now have a grandparent who is of a skin colour that does not reflect their own or their parents’
Full Circle
“In less than one week, I return for another look, not knowing what I am seeking or what I should look for. In less than three weeks my fourth child is born. So why go? Why now? This is not how it was planned."
‘Our Story’
My husband, Ossie, and I met forty years ago on 21st July 1972. Our forty-year journey, however, didn't get off to an easy start!
Mixed Heritage and Proud
MIXED HERITAGE & PROUD – Personal and Professional Reflections by Sarah Kate Bennett. Growing up there were two songs that I have never forgotten. The first, ‘there ain’t no black in the union jack’ and the second ‘brown girl in the ring’.
‘The Ethnic Question’ by Sebastian Jenkins
How do you feel when faced with one of the “Ethnic Monitoring” forms which appear not only in the national Census, but in all kinds of government, medical or administrative forms?
From the Farm to the Melting Pot
Francis Wardle – a man who started out from a small enclosed homogeneous community and journeyed through a series of increasingly mixed cultures and races to a global kaleidoscope has a unique claim to personify change to date and to forecast what form future change will take
Hafu/Half Japanese
Hafu/ Half Japanese Natalie Maya Willer (Photographer) Marcia Yumi Lise (Researcher) Our shared interest in half Japanese identity inherently stems from our experience of being in between different cultures. Like many other half Japanese people we have been making an enquiry into our mixed cultural experience. This questioning of our own identity has its roots …