{"id":17115,"date":"2011-10-18T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17115"},"modified":"2011-10-18T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:04:10","slug":"mixed-race-literature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17115","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/interculturalaffairs.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/mixed-race-literature.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/interculturalaffairs.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Intercultural Happenings: Thoughts and experiences towards creating a more culturally inclusive community<br \/>\n<\/a>Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2011-03-28<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Each month, we highlight some of the reflective posts of our work study students. Unedited, they blog about observations, experiences and thoughts about diversity in their lives as seen through their lenses.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s post is from Ariel, a multiracial student at Stonehill:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed race literature is a genre by authors and about individuals who identify as being mixed-race. This ranges from Native-European, African-European, Native-African American, and other multiracial identities. I feel as if the majority of these writers collectively dread the idea of being limited to only one category or genre of literature because some might think they are responsible for multiple identities. Lately I\u2019ve been reading works by contemporary Native American authors who are challenging their audiences to view topics of mixed- blood individuals as a subsection of Native literature rather than a collection of works which \u201cquestion the authority\u201d of Native American identity. What I\u2019ve also noticed is both Native Americans and African Americans are similar in the sense that their histories are plagued by the paradigm of the colonizer versus the colonized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/interculturalaffairs.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/mixed-race-literature.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race Literature Intercultural Happenings: Thoughts and experiences towards creating a more culturally inclusive community Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts 2011-03-28 Each month, we highlight some of the reflective posts of our work study students. Unedited, they blog about observations, experiences and thoughts about diversity in their lives as seen through their lenses. Today&#8217;s post is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[7942,7941],"class_list":["post-17115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-intercultural-happenings","tag-intercultural-happenings-thoughts-and-experiences-towards-creating-a-more-culturally-inclusive-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115","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=17115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}