{"id":14592,"date":"2011-06-28T21:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14592"},"modified":"2012-04-10T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:09:11","slug":"asians-in-s-a-claim-multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14592","title":{"rendered":"Asians in S.A. claim multiracial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/article\/Asians-in-S-A-claim-multiracial-identity-1441328.php\" target=\"_blank\">Asians in S.A. claim multiracial identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Express-News<\/a><br \/>\n2011-06-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:eayala@express-news.net\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elaine Ayala<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong>Kelly Guckian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Antonio\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio&#8217;s<\/a> Asian residents are more likely to self-identify as being of more than one race or ethnicity than their U.S. and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> counterparts, according to new 2010 Census data. The trend indicates not only intermarriage with whites and Hispanics since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>, experts said, but more of a willingness or opportunity among Asians to intermarry outside their group.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nData compiled by the <em>San Antonio Express-News<\/em> <strong>points to the impact of a strong military presence in San Antonio over several generations<\/strong>, among them Anglo and Hispanic soldiers who brought home \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_bride\" target=\"_blank\">war brides<\/a>,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.google.com\/mitsu0606#mitsu0606\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Mitsu Yamazaki<\/a> of the Alamo Asian American Chamber of Commerce, who studies demographic trends.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSan Antonio stands out from other U.S. and Texas cities in another way that may fuel more intermarriage among Asians, said Texas state demographer <a href=\"http:\/\/idser.utsa.edu\/People.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lloyd Potter<\/a>: It doesn&#8217;t have an Asian enclave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/article\/Asians-in-S-A-claim-multiracial-identity-1441328.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asians in S.A. claim multiracial identity San Antonio Express-News 2011-06-26 Elaine Ayala\u00a0and Kelly Guckian San Antonio&#8217;s Asian residents are more likely to self-identify as being of more than one race or ethnicity than their U.S. and Texas counterparts, according to new 2010 Census data. The trend indicates not only intermarriage with whites and Hispanics since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,33,1249,20],"tags":[6688,6689,6691,6692,6690,20760],"class_list":["post-14592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-census","category-texas","category-usa","tag-elaine-ayala","tag-kelly-guckian","tag-lloyd-potter","tag-mitsu-yamazaki","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592","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=14592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}