{"id":10033,"date":"2010-11-11T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2014-09-13T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:12:47","slug":"mixed-a-mixed-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10033","title":{"rendered":"Mixed: A Mixed Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/index.php\/article\/2010\/11\/a_mixed_heritage\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed: A Mixed Heritage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Bruin<br \/>\n<\/a>University of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\n2010-11-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicholas Greitzer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America has always been considered a melting pot \u2013 a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial. While there may not be any similar statistics for UCLA, a look at the enrollment figures for 2009 lists 4.4 percent of students as having an ethnicity of unstated, unknown or other, close to the national percentage in 2000 of 2.4 of those who identify themselves as multiracial.<\/p>\n<p>Second-year international development studies and Chicana\/Chicano studies student Camila Lacques falls into that group that cannot be adequately fit into the racial options provided by the U.S. Census Bureau or the University of California undergraduate application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want to put you in a box, but mixed people don\u2019t fit into a box,\u201d said Lacques, who identifies herself as half Mexican, a quarter Irish and a quarter eastern European Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>Lacques\u2019 cultural makeup is not limited to those backgrounds found within her blood, as she was raised in a predominantly black neighborhood and attended an elementary and middle school that was comprised primarily of Korean students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In a similar vein, for second-year sociology student Ay\u2019Anna Moody, being multiracial revolves around teaching others that they need to be intellectually curious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed to know who I was in order for me to move forward, culturally and socially,\u201d said Moody, whose dad is black Creole and whose mom is Scott-Irish, German and black.<\/p>\n<p>While Moody said that Irish traditions such as St. Patrick\u2019s Day held a prominent place in her family, it was the black cultural influence that dominated her household, which she shared with her mother and stepfather&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/index.php\/article\/2010\/11\/a_mixed_heritage\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot \u2013 a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial. 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