Being Brown in a Black and White World: Conversations for Leaders about Race, Racism and Belonging

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With this in mind, as Conservative health minister between 1960 and 1963, he actively attracted young doctors from the former colonies to come and help staff the new UK NHS. In 1915, Donald Mackenzie conceived a " Mediterranean or Brown race, the eastern branch of which reaches to India and the western to the British Isles. Occasionally, newspapers tried to assuage their readers’ concerns over migration by portraying it as a necessary evil.

Or is there a darker explanation, one which suggests that, in some senses, the age of empire never ended at all, but persists to this day?Still, medicine became a golden ticket to Indians: one of the only ways to escape crushing poverty and gain some status. In 1775, "John Hunter of Edinburg included under the label light brown, Southern Europeans, Italians, the Spanish, Persians, Turks and Laplanders, under the label brown.

Global racial map by eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard in The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, 1920.

A quarter of a million people of colour currently work in the British National Health Service, and all must get asked a version of this question at some point. I wanted no part of the Indian community my parents were peripherally involved in and looked the other way when I saw Indian kids in public.