We hope you like the new website. It reflects our journey from a seed of an idea, to the foundation of the Multiple Heritage Project in 2006, through the emergence of the idea of Mix-d: in 2007, to something that is today attracting interest from people worldwide.
This blog post is a stock take of where we are up to and a brief look forwards.
We have always worked on two fronts: the psychological and the sociological. By this we mean we consider the lived experiences and identities of mixed race people – but we look further out into the broader social assumptions and debates that make mixed race an issue in the first place.
Multiple Heritage is a good term. It acknowledges the strength and beauty of being able to draw on diverse and interesting strands of ancestry and geography. We are not losing Multiple Heritage from our descriptive toolbox. It remains as our umbrella term and as the title of our fast developing research arm.
But somehow we noticed that it failed to capture the full resonance of mixed race experiences. So Mix-d: (pronounced “mixed”) was born.
Mix-d: carries the sense of a unique brand through its hyphen and indicates with its colon that experiences of mixed race people are always emerging, both with current generations and with as yet undefined new generations of Mix-d: people to come.
In this sense Mix-d: as a working term sits very comfortably with the youth facing work which has gathered dramatic momentum over the last two years through a series of workshops, seminars, conferences and a growing resource of written and multi-media materials.
This work continues and will broaden, increasingly involving parents, peer support groups, specialist support of professionals and involvement with multi-agency networks.
We are increasingly receiving inquiries from individuals, research bodies and support organisations on an international basis.
The other key recent development is the volume and depth of the research activity feeding into and out of our activities.
Because of this we are shortly establishing The Multiple Heritage Research Arm, which we intend to become the leading journal location on Mix-d: related research and commentary.
We hope we have never been lacking in our acknowledgement of the help and support of others – but it never hurts to say it again: thanks to everyone who has contributed to bringing Mix-d: to this stage.
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