Chamion Caballero
Dr Chamion Caballero is the Director of The Mixed Museum, an online archive dedicated to the preservation and sharing of the history of mixed race couples, families and people in Britain: www.mixedmuseum.org.uk
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She was previously a Reader at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University and has also held Senior Visiting Fellowships at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her research interests include race and ethnicity, particularly pertaining to the concept of mixed race, families, social history and qualitative research methods. Her PhD ‘Mixed Race Projects’: Perceptions, Constructions and Implications of Mixed Race in the UK and USA was awarded by the University of Bristol in 2005. With colleagues and individually, Chamion has worked on projects funded by the Department for Education and Skills, the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Runnymede Trust. In addition to academic articles, her published research includes a number of reports for these funders: Mixedness and the Arts (published by Runnymede Trust, 2010); Lone Mothers: Then and Now with Ros Edwards (published by Runnymede Trust, 2010); Parenting ‘Mixed’ Children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families with Ros Edwards and Shuby Puthussery (published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2008); Aiming High: Evaluation of African Caribbean Achivement Project with Leon Tikly, Jo Haynes, John Hill and David Gillborn (published by Department for Education and Skills, 2006) and Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Children with Leon Tikly, Jo Haynes and John Hill (published by Department for Education and Skills, 2004).
Findings from various research projects have featured in a number of newspaper and television articles and reports and her British Academy funded research with Peter Aspinall (University of Kent) on mixed race people, families and couples in 20th century Britain formed the foundations of the 2011 BBC2 television series ‘Mixed Britannia’ as well as the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan book 'Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century.
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She was previously a Reader at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University and has also held Senior Visiting Fellowships at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her research interests include race and ethnicity, particularly pertaining to the concept of mixed race, families, social history and qualitative research methods. Her PhD ‘Mixed Race Projects’: Perceptions, Constructions and Implications of Mixed Race in the UK and USA was awarded by the University of Bristol in 2005. With colleagues and individually, Chamion has worked on projects funded by the Department for Education and Skills, the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Runnymede Trust. In addition to academic articles, her published research includes a number of reports for these funders: Mixedness and the Arts (published by Runnymede Trust, 2010); Lone Mothers: Then and Now with Ros Edwards (published by Runnymede Trust, 2010); Parenting ‘Mixed’ Children: negotiating difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families with Ros Edwards and Shuby Puthussery (published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2008); Aiming High: Evaluation of African Caribbean Achivement Project with Leon Tikly, Jo Haynes, John Hill and David Gillborn (published by Department for Education and Skills, 2006) and Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Children with Leon Tikly, Jo Haynes and John Hill (published by Department for Education and Skills, 2004).
Findings from various research projects have featured in a number of newspaper and television articles and reports and her British Academy funded research with Peter Aspinall (University of Kent) on mixed race people, families and couples in 20th century Britain formed the foundations of the 2011 BBC2 television series ‘Mixed Britannia’ as well as the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan book 'Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century.
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Books by Chamion Caballero
Based on research that formed the foundations of the British television series Mixed Britannia, the authors draw on a range of firsthand accounts and archival material to compare ‘official’ accounts of racial mixing and mixedness with those told by mixed race people, couples and families themselves.
Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century shows that alongside the more familiarly recognised experiences of social bigotry and racial prejudice there can also be glimpsed constant threads of tolerance, acceptance, inclusion and ‘ordinariness’. It presents a more complex and multifaceted history of mixed race Britain than is typically assumed, one that adds to the growing picture of the longstanding diversity and difference that is, and always has been, an ordinary and everyday feature of British life.
This interdisciplinary volume brings internationally well-respected researchers together to explore the different contexts and concepts underpinning discussions about mixedness and mixing. Moving beyond pathologically focused research about confused identities and a dualistic black-white conception of mixedness, the book includes chapters on:
Multiraciality and race classification
Mixed race couples
Mixedness in everyday life
Mixed race politics.
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing develops theoretical perspectives and presents intellectually shaped empirical evidence that can deal with complexity and normalcy in order to move the debate onto more fruitful grounds.
Papers by Chamion Caballero
Drawing on three recent studies exploring the everyday experiences of lone and couple parents of mixed racial and ethnic children, this paper discusses the ways in which mixed racial and ethnic children who are not in the care system experience difference and belonging within their families and how they negotiate and manage these factors. In particular, the paper illustrates the types of strategies and supports that parents draw on to give their children a positive sense of identity and belonging, as well as the ways in which other issues can be more significant for mixed racial and ethnic children and their parents than what they often see as ‘ordinary’ internal family difference.
Arguing that the demographics and experiences of mixed racial and ethnic families are much more diverse and complex than is commonly imagined, the authors thus ask to what extent do policies and practice around the placement of mixed racial and ethnic children reflect the lives of those families outside the care system and, moreover, in what ways can or should the experiences of these families inform policy and practice for those within it? The paper points to a number of implications for adoption and fostering practice and policies emerging from a more multifaceted understanding of the everyday lives of racially and ethnically mixed families as presented by the authors.
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Based on research that formed the foundations of the British television series Mixed Britannia, the authors draw on a range of firsthand accounts and archival material to compare ‘official’ accounts of racial mixing and mixedness with those told by mixed race people, couples and families themselves.
Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century shows that alongside the more familiarly recognised experiences of social bigotry and racial prejudice there can also be glimpsed constant threads of tolerance, acceptance, inclusion and ‘ordinariness’. It presents a more complex and multifaceted history of mixed race Britain than is typically assumed, one that adds to the growing picture of the longstanding diversity and difference that is, and always has been, an ordinary and everyday feature of British life.
This interdisciplinary volume brings internationally well-respected researchers together to explore the different contexts and concepts underpinning discussions about mixedness and mixing. Moving beyond pathologically focused research about confused identities and a dualistic black-white conception of mixedness, the book includes chapters on:
Multiraciality and race classification
Mixed race couples
Mixedness in everyday life
Mixed race politics.
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing develops theoretical perspectives and presents intellectually shaped empirical evidence that can deal with complexity and normalcy in order to move the debate onto more fruitful grounds.
Drawing on three recent studies exploring the everyday experiences of lone and couple parents of mixed racial and ethnic children, this paper discusses the ways in which mixed racial and ethnic children who are not in the care system experience difference and belonging within their families and how they negotiate and manage these factors. In particular, the paper illustrates the types of strategies and supports that parents draw on to give their children a positive sense of identity and belonging, as well as the ways in which other issues can be more significant for mixed racial and ethnic children and their parents than what they often see as ‘ordinary’ internal family difference.
Arguing that the demographics and experiences of mixed racial and ethnic families are much more diverse and complex than is commonly imagined, the authors thus ask to what extent do policies and practice around the placement of mixed racial and ethnic children reflect the lives of those families outside the care system and, moreover, in what ways can or should the experiences of these families inform policy and practice for those within it? The paper points to a number of implications for adoption and fostering practice and policies emerging from a more multifaceted understanding of the everyday lives of racially and ethnically mixed families as presented by the authors.
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This research report aims to investigate the educational needs of mixed heritage pupils through a specific focus on the barriers to achievement faced by White/Black Caribbean learners. It also establishes how schools have overcome these barriers through successful practice which promotes achievement.