{"id":14963,"date":"2011-07-17T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14963"},"modified":"2011-07-17T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T23:22:40","slug":"number-of-multiracial-people-grows-in-oneida-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14963","title":{"rendered":"Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/m\/top\/x1797065455\/Number-of-multiracial-people-grows-in-Oneida-County\" target=\"_blank\">Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Observer-Dispatch<\/a><br \/>\nUtica, New York<br \/>\n2011-07-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Cooper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utica,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">UTICA<\/a> \u2014 Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBut the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn\u2019t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up, it\u2019s in positive ways.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI feel really unique because of all those cultures being bundled up together,\u201d she said. \u201cIt sets you apart from other people. It makes you who you are.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDuong is one of a growing number of multiracial people living in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oneida_County,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Oneida County<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNew census figures show the number of people identifying themselves as mixed race has risen about 35 percent since the 2000 Census, from 3,583 to 4,865.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCombinations of white, black and Asian are turning up in greater numbers, and each statistic illuminates a different aspect of the region\u2019s ever-changing mosaic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of Oneida County residents who said they are a combination of black and white jumped from 831 to 2,157.<\/li>\n<li>The number of those saying they are white and Asian rose from 388 to 586.<\/li>\n<li>The number saying they are part black and part Asian went from 18 to 51.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those numbers still make up a small portion of the total population of the county, which stands at 234,878. Still, they echo a transformation going on across the nation.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nExperts attributed the change to several factors, Hamilton College Associate Professor of Sociology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamilton.edu\/academics\/departments\/faculty?dept=Sociology#1105564\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Irons<\/a> said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;The Obama factor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even as attitudes toward race change, there are ways people\u2019s attitudes have remained the same.<\/p>\n<p>Irons noted that even though <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> has been clear about his biracial background, he still is talked about as the nation\u2019s first black president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our society we still think of race in pretty rigid, fixed categories,\u201d she said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Black and white<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Fenimore, 31, is half black and half white, but when it came to filling out the census form, he said he was black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing my mom always told me is the color of my skin is black,\u201d he said. \u201cI always put myself down as a black male and am proud of that. I know who my parents are and I\u2019m proud of who I am.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/m\/top\/x1797065455\/Number-of-multiracial-people-grows-in-Oneida-County\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of multiracial people grows in Oneida County The Observer-Dispatch Utica, New York 2011-07-14 Elizabeth Cooper UTICA \u2014 Nisa Duong is part Vietnamese, part black, part American Indian and part white. \u00a0 But the 19-year-old Utica resident said her racial and ethnic identity isn\u2019t at the forefront of her mind, and if it comes up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,6,20],"tags":[6902,6901,2711,6904,6903],"class_list":["post-14963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-cooper","tag-jenny-irons","tag-new-york","tag-oneida-county","tag-the-observer-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963","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=14963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}