{"id":13473,"date":"2011-04-26T20:50:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2011-04-26T20:50:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:50:19","slug":"growing-up-mixed-blended-in-the-new-american-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13473","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=134953208\" target=\"_blank\">Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/tell-me-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tell Me More<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n2011-03-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/5201175\/michel-martin\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Martin<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=134953208\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/chrome\/news\/nprlogo_138x46.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New census figures show that the number of mixed-race Americans has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last ten years. And that rise in number is most pronounced in the South. Census data also reveals that 17 percent of kids in the U.S live in blended families. In Tell Me More&#8217;s weekly parenting conversation, host Michel Martin explores the experiences of mixed-race and blended families. Weighing in on the discussion is Suzy Richardson, founder of the website, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedandhappy.com\" target=\"_blank\">MixedandHappy.com<\/a><\/em>, Karyn Langhorne Folan, author of <em>Don&#8217;t Bring Home A White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women from Dating Out<\/em> and NPR editor Davar Ardalan.<\/p>\n<p>Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=134953208\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=134953208&amp;m=134953195\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (00:17:41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing Up Mixed, Blended In The New American Family National Public Radio Tell Me More 2011-03-29 Michel Martin, Host New census figures show that the number of mixed-race Americans has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last ten years. And that rise in number is most pronounced in the South. Census data also reveals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,33,414,8,394,20],"tags":[6140,6141,2310,2309,2833,6142,2308],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-census","category-family","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-davar-ardalan","tag-karyn-langhorne-folan","tag-michel-martin","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-suzy-richardson","tag-tell-me-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","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=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}