{"id":1021,"date":"2012-10-25T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:33","slug":"13th-nov-myths-and-realities-our-ethnicity-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/10\/25\/13th-nov-myths-and-realities-our-ethnicity-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Nov: Myths and realities &#8211; our ethnicity and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British Library event on ethnicity and identity will feature \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/song.html\">Miri Song<\/a>, Professor of Sociology at Kent. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/events\/event136403.html\">The event<\/a>\u00a0on 13th Nov at the British Library itself\u00a0will look at whether the public\u2019s obvious delight and celebration of all the diverse members of Team GB, irrespective of individual ethnicities and identities, marks a significant shift in public perceptions towards ethnic identities.\u00a0What does it mean to be \u2018mixed race\u2019? What does ethnicity mean for our image of ourselves and others?<\/p>\n<p>The event will be chaired by Rania Hafez,\u00a0Director of Post-Compulsory Education at the University of East London and Director of the network Muslim Women in Education; and also speaking will be\u00a0Ann Phoenix, Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education. \u00a0You can buy tickets to the event via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/events\/event136403.html\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British Library event on ethnicity and identity will feature \u00a0Miri Song, Professor of Sociology at Kent. \u00a0The event\u00a0on 13th Nov at the British Library &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/10\/25\/13th-nov-myths-and-realities-our-ethnicity-and-identity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2904,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}