{"id":11118,"date":"2010-12-31T02:32:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11118"},"modified":"2013-08-03T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T21:15:40","slug":"challenges-for-%e2%80%98mixed-race%e2%80%99-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11118","title":{"rendered":"Challenges for \u2018Mixed-Race\u2019 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think balancing personal experience and personal stories with an understanding of our past and also scholarly work and research&#8230; finding a balance between those.\u00a0 Because that we find that people who are really interested in the emotional\/personal stories tend to not have a lot of background information.\u00a0 And then we find vice-versa, that the people who are really experts in history don\u2019t know how to get on the Internet. So yes, and for stories especially&#8230; We have a lot of people really interested in storytelling but have no background in context. So we need historians who can find a way to make their information interesting to young people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fanshen Cox<\/a>, \u201cCommunity-Based Multiracial Movements: Learning from the Past, Looking toward the Future\u201d (roundtable discussion at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2368\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a>, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, November 5-6, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think balancing personal experience and personal stories with an understanding of our past and also scholarly work and research&#8230; finding a balance between those.\u00a0 Because that we find that people who are really interested in the emotional\/personal stories tend to not have a lot of background information.\u00a0 And then we find vice-versa, that the [&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":[4204,118],"class_list":["post-11118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","tag-fanshen-cox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118","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=11118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}