{"id":14972,"date":"2011-07-18T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2011-07-18T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:19:51","slug":"multiracial-teens-launch-a-latte-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14972","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tell Me More<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2011-07-15<\/p>\n

Michel Martin<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

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“You’re half Chinese and half European, I’m half Indian, a quarter Mexican and a quarter Irish. We’re mixed up. We’re not really one or the other ethnically. We’re like human lattes.”<\/p>\n

So explains Asha, the main character in Sarah Jamila Stevenson’s<\/a> debut novel, The Latte Rebellion<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

To raise money for a class trip she and her friends began as selling a few T-shirts and labeled the effort the Latte Rebellion. But the movement soon became something much larger than they could have anticipated.<\/p>\n

Seen through the eyes of adolescents, Asha and her friends tackle the complexities of identifying as multiracial during adolescence, when identifying as anything seems like a challenge.<\/p>\n

“At the time I was writing it … there were still some news stories about South Asians who were getting harassed and insulted, and even assaulted,” Stevenson said in an interview with Tell Me More<\/em> host Michel Martin. “And because I’m part South Asian myself, it really hit close to home. It had me worried about my relatives who live in the United States. So I felt pretty strongly about working that into my book somewhere.”…<\/p>\n

Read the transcript here<\/a>.\u00a0 Listen to the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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