| Sumario: | Mixed‐race relationships and 'miscegenation', particularly between men of colour and white women became the central issue for white perceptions of race in post‐war and post‐Windrush Britain. While 'race‐relations' discourse described the 'dark strangers in our midst', concerns about the 'new' presence of black, predominantly West Indian, men manifested most sharply when it threatened to move from the streets into the familial home. This article explores the role of parental intervention in both the prevention and occurrence of mixed‐race relationships in this period. Drawing on popular, public representations of mixed‐race relationships and the oral history data collected in sociological studies of the time, it maps the connections between discourse and lived experience.
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