{"id":10079,"date":"2010-11-15T02:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T02:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2016-06-20T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:35:10","slug":"myspace-and-facebook-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10079","title":{"rendered":"MySpace and Facebook Identities&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Achin surveyed hundreds of biracial adolescents through MySpace and Facebook, personal connections, and random interviews, asking probing personal questions of how they viewed themselves. She found that their responses clustered into five categories of identity: \u201cMonoracials,\u201d who defined themselves predominantly by a primary peer group; \u201cBidentifiers,\u201d who identify confidently with more than one racial identity; \u201cSliders,\u201d who were able to identify with whatever group in which they found themselves; \u201cRaceless,\u201d who refused to identify with any race, but prefer race-neutral descriptors such as \u201cAmerican\u201d; and \u201cPartial People,\u201d who identify themselves as half a person, mostly as half-white, rarely as half-black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sally Holm, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=10062\" target=\"_blank\">CAMD Scholars Take On Variety of Complex Racial Issues in MLK Jr. Day Presentations<\/a>,\u201d <em>Phillips Academy News<\/em>, January 28, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achin surveyed hundreds of biracial adolescents through MySpace and Facebook, personal connections, and random interviews, asking probing personal questions of how they viewed themselves. She found that their responses clustered into five categories of identity: \u201cMonoracials,\u201d who defined themselves predominantly by a primary peer group; \u201cBidentifiers,\u201d who identify confidently with more than one racial identity; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","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=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47838,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/47838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}