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However, by the end of the eighteenth century the official policies had turned full circle marriages crossing racial lines were treated with distrust and even regarded at a potential threat to the Empire. For example, the English and Indians intermingled freely in the latter’s native country and the East India Company under British control first encouraged intermarriage in the belief that racially mixed people would serve as a ‘bridge’ between Britain and India. The experience in the Empire would have predicted little acceptance of marriage between whites and coloureds. The rate of intermarriage between races is affected by numerous factors, and may be viewed as a specific social action with significance both to the individual participants and the society of which they are member.
Although the British experience of the last two decades has refuted this hypothesis, little data have been accumulated with respect to the ultimate measure of acceptance-intermarriage. Implicit in this argument was that intolerance shown to the people from the former colonies was due to their being immigrants, not because they were coloured. The acquisition of wealth, education, and knowledge of the arts could make the immigrant acceptable to the host country. Kenneth Little advanced the ‘colour-class hypothesis’ in the early 1950s arguing that the Commonwealth immigrants were seen by the English as representatives of the natives in the Empire. Initially British observers were optimistic about the likelihood of a multi-racial society succeeding in Britain. These ‘coloured’ people, as they are referred to in Britain, were met with increasingly less sympathy and harsher immigration restrictions until the barriers to entry were almost insurmountable. Large numbers of Blacks and Asians have migrated to Great Britain since World War II, and especially between 19. Racial endogamy in Great Britain: A cross-national perspective Sameer Rao, “ ‘Breaking’ Presents: Xenia Rubinos, a Powerhose Singer/Songwriter Unafraid to Learn Out Loud,” Colorlines, June 10, 2016. I explore the ‘Afro’ part of my cultural identity, and how I do or don’t fit into that, on ‘ Black Terry Cat.’” She says that’s a big part of why hip-hop permeates this album. “I started reading on the Afro-Latina diaspora two years ago, and I’m still ignorant to a lot of that, but I started seeing myself in that term.
“My family history is complicated, and I still don’t fully know the extent of it,” she says after describing her Black maternal great grandmother, her Puerto Rican family’s Taino heritage and her paternal grandfather’s emigration from Spain. While she identifies as Afro-Latina, she tells Colorlines that she does not identify as Black. Juxtaposed, “Mexican Chef” and “Black Stars” speak volumes about the ongoing evolution of Rubios’ identity.
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