Steve Jones in an excellent article points out that men and women are on the move and are having lots of sex on the way. This, according to him is leading to greater assimilation. He poses the question: how far was your birthplace from that of your partner and how far apart were your mother and father and your grandmothers and grandfathers born?
In answer he says that ‘in almost every case the distance has increased over the generations and continues to do so (my wife and I first saw the light 3000 miles apart; my mother and father about 3)’. For me and my wife it was 4000 miles and my parents only a few yards.
Both Obama and Hamilton also seem to have given permission to many others across the world to declare their mixed heritage. Two examples I came across from the recent papers. First was Kamal Ahmed and the second one was India Knight. I don’t think either has written about their race or identity before. Ahmed was a political editor in the Observer while Knight has a weekly column in the Sunday Times and rarely writes about race or multicultural matters.
Then today, I came across this excellent article by Nina Kelly which provides a unique perspective on (mixed race) identities.
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Submitted by karamat on Tue, 2008-11-11 18:04.