Mixed-race is the fastest-growing minority group in Britain, yet race continues to be discussed in a binary fashion: black or white. So where does a mixed-race person fit? In Biracial Britain, Remi Adekoya speaks to mixed-race Britons of all ages and racial profiles to understand how identities are felt. Georgina Lawton grew up in a family who never acknowledged her Blackness, the obvious fact of her brown skin ignored by her white parents; in Raceless she explores the psychological dislocation caused by the erasure of her racial identity.
Ijoma Mangold recalls his youth in 1970s Germany in The German Crocodile and considers the balancing act of living between two cultures. In conversation with Rosie Goldsmith they look to a new understanding of mixed-race identity better suited to our century.
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