Dr Chamion Caballero

Independent Scholar Fellow 2023

‘Communicating Mixedness’: using digital technologies to explore the dissemination of academic research into nineteenth century working-class racial mixing in Britain with a public audience

Despite a considerable body of excellent academic scholarship on the history of mixed race people, couples and families in Britain that highlights their presence as far back as the sixteenth century, in the public sphere this history largely lies unknown and unengaged with, or misunderstood. This project thus seeks to interrogate how we can better ‘communicate mixedness’ to enhance public knowledge around the history of racial mixing in Britain.

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Areas of interest

Race Ethnic Minorities Ethnicity Qualitative Methods History

Cohort

ISF9

Biography

Dr Chamion Caballero is the Director and co-founder of The Mixed Museum, an award-winning digital museum that shares and preserves the history of racial mixing in Britain. She was previously a Reader at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University and has held Senior Visiting Fellow posts at the London School of Economics, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include race, ethnicity and qualitative methods and she has contributed to numerous journal articles and reports in this area, including for the Department for Education, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Runnymede Trust. Her historical research with Peter Aspinall on mixed race Britain formed the foundations of the 2011 BBC2 series Mixed Britannia, on which she also acted as an academic consultant.

Biographical details correct as of 18.09.24