{"id":15573,"date":"2011-08-12T00:33:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15573"},"modified":"2014-10-07T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T19:29:28","slug":"san-francisco-state-journalism-professor-yumi-wilson%e2%80%99s-multicultural-heritage-helps-connect-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15573","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson\u2019s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson\u2019s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education<\/a>
\n2011-08-11<\/p>\n

Lydia Lum<\/strong><\/p>\n

San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson\u2019s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People<\/em><\/p>\n

Yumi Wilson<\/a> teaches news writing, opinion and literary journalism at San Francisco State University where she\u2019s an associate professor of journalism. Formerly a reporter for The Associated Press<\/em> and the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, Wilson covered hundreds of major stories. They included the 1992 Los Angeles race riots<\/a> after the acquittal of White police officers in the beating of Black motorist Rodney King<\/a> and the controversial, voter-approved Proposition 209<\/a>, which banned California\u2019s public universities and agencies from considering race in admissions, contracting and employment. A Fulbright scholarship enabled Wilson to travel to Japan in 2001 and research military marriages, conduct interviews about interracial identities there and, with the help of translators, ask her relatives about her mother\u2019s early life. Wilson holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

DI: What are your observations about diversity in the news industry today?
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\nYW: I\u2019m really worried. Fewer people of color are choosing journalism careers. Entry-level jobs are scarce. The pay is often so low that it seems only people whose families can afford a financial hit can get into journalism. Internships are excellent to gain experience, but nowadays they seem to last much longer than a summer and, at some point, a paying job really should kick in. I would not have been able to get into journalism if these cutbacks had occurred when I was in college. It\u2019s disappointing that young minorities studying journalism are choosing other careers or going to graduate school without working in the field because even if they work in journalism for only five years, they would still make an impact with their energy and ideas. We\u2019re fast losing an important voice of conscience…<\/p>\n

…DI: As the daughter of a Black U.S. Army soldier and a woman from northern Japan, what have you written connected to your heritage?
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\nYW: I wrote an essay exploring the shifting meaning of multiracial identity, which was published in a Loyola Marymount University literary journal a few years ago. And this year, I presented a paper about Black Amerasians at the Association for Asian American Studies conference. It\u2019s reassuring to know it connects with people helping to spread knowledge.<\/p>\n

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