{"id":10000,"date":"2010-11-11T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:50:18","slug":"profiles-samuel-hickson-the-change-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10000","title":{"rendered":"Profiles: Samuel Hickson &#8211; The Change Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brockport.edu\/profiles\/shickson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Profiles: Samuel Hickson &#8211; The Change Agent<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State University of New York, Brockport<br \/>\n2010-10-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>BS in Sociology, \u201910<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy understanding of what is important in life began with my family, who taught me about cultural diversity and having respect for people who are different from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Hickson, a former McNair student, studied the processes of racial identification in multiracial students in modern America and the benefits and consequences of that racial choice. Through his study, \u201cSilent but Real: The Struggle for Racial Identification for Multiracial Students in Modern America,\u201d Samuel sought to understand how student\u2019s racial classification changes as their education increases. In addition, Samuel worked on a senior project , which tells the story of social conditions of the world through photos. \u201cOne Voice, One Sound; Ghostly Voices, Stories Untold,\u201d considers social conditions in five countries: Ghana, Uganda, Jamaica, Mexico, and the US. His project revealed that education comes in many forms\u2014academic, physical, art, music, and others\u2014and that by incorporating the physical aspects of education with the arts, the possibility for affecting positive change multiplies many times over. And that\u2019s what Samuel\u2019s life is all about\u2014effecting positive change in the lives of people around him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire profile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brockport.edu\/profiles\/shickson.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profiles: Samuel Hickson &#8211; The Change Agent State University of New York, Brockport 2010-10-28 BS in Sociology, \u201910 \u201cMy understanding of what is important in life began with my family, who taught me about cultural diversity and having respect for people who are different from me.\u201d Samuel Hickson, a former McNair student, studied the processes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[4364,4365,4363],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-samuel-hickson","tag-suny-at-brockport","tag-the-college-at-brockport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43572,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions\/43572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}