{"id":17633,"date":"2011-11-01T02:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17633"},"modified":"2014-09-20T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:19:40","slug":"multiracial-families-counted-but-still-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17633","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2011\/10\/31\/multiracial-families-counted-but-still-misunderstood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\" target=\"_blank\">Racialicious<\/a><br \/>\n2011-10-31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jen Chau<\/strong>, Guest Contributor<\/p>\n<p>In the past couple of years, I have noticed a certain complacency that I never noticed before, in my eleven years of leading Swirl. The same passion and the same excitement around building multiracial communities had faded a bit. In the one year leading up to the Presidential election, we launched five new chapters (the norm had been a chapter every year or every other year). People were excited by the energy created by Obama\u2019s campaign, and they were motivated and eager to be a part of creating supportive and inclusive multiracial communities.<\/p>\n<p>And then once Obama was firmly placed in the White House, something happened. It got quiet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2011\/10\/31\/multiracial-families-counted-but-still-misunderstood\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial Families: Counted But Still Misunderstood Racialicious 2011-10-31 Jen Chau, Guest Contributor In the past couple of years, I have noticed a certain complacency that I never noticed before, in my eleven years of leading Swirl. The same passion and the same excitement around building multiracial communities had faded a bit. In the one year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,33,8,20],"tags":[2806,6875],"class_list":["post-17633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jen-chau","tag-racialicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633","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=17633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}