{"id":18244,"date":"2011-11-16T04:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18244"},"modified":"2011-12-03T02:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T02:37:32","slug":"students-break-out-of-fixed-race-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18244","title":{"rendered":"Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/blog\/students-break-out-fixed-race-box\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolerance.org\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a><br \/>\n2011-11-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/faculty\/journalismadjunct.aspx?id=172420\" target=\"_blank\">Pamela Cytrynbaum<\/a><\/strong>, Instructor of Journalism<br \/>\n<em>Northwestern University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national trends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop letting all the midlife writers (like myself) tell your stories,\u201d I pushed. \u201cTell your own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As they went around the room, several pitches swirled around the same theme: the dramatic increase in multi-racial students and the issues of identity and self-definition they face.<\/p>\n<p>The idea caught fire and sparked a fascinating class discussion. Turns out, they identified a trend that is transforming our classrooms\u2014and should transform our teaching as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/blog\/students-break-out-fixed-race-box\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8413,125,6,20],"tags":[8293,7933,8294],"class_list":["post-18244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-communications","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-pamela-cytrynbaum","tag-southern-poverty-law-center","tag-teaching-tolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244","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=18244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}