{"id":20653,"date":"2012-02-14T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20653"},"modified":"2015-11-29T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T18:27:35","slug":"multiracial-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20653","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/arts\/multiracial-meditations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial meditations<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psuvanguard.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Portland State Vanguard<\/a><br \/>\nPortland State University, Portland, Oregon<br \/>\n2012-02-13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeoffry Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>PSU panel to discuss growing up biracial in context of novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=577\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl Who Fell from the Sky<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>How does one begin to discuss the experience of belonging to more than one \u201crace\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really up to the participants,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.pdx.edu\/faculty\/hines_m.php\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Maude Hines<\/a>, organizer of the Portland State and Multnomah County Libraries\u2019 2012 Everybody Reads project, which will hold a panel discussion titled \u201cGrowing Up Biracial\u201d Thursday, Feb. 16, at the university\u2019s Millar Library.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion will focus on the panel members\u2019 experiences growing up as multiracial individuals and will be presented in the context of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=577\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl Who Fell from the Sky<\/a><\/em> (Algonquin, 2008) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiwdurrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Durrow<\/a>, the novel that is the focus of this year\u2019s Everybody Reads program.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will include associate professor of the PSU Black Studies Department <a href=\"http:\/\/pdx.edu\/blackstudies\/ethan-johnson-biography\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Ethan Johnson<\/a>, graduate student Adrienne Croskey and undergraduate Kevin Thomas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/arts\/multiracial-meditations\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial meditations The Portland State Vanguard Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2012-02-13 Jeoffry Ray PSU panel to discuss growing up biracial in context of novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky How does one begin to discuss the experience of belonging to more than one \u201crace\u201d? It\u2019s really up to the participants,\u201d said Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,13,8,20],"tags":[9686,9685,9684,65,64,9681,9680,9683,9682],"class_list":["post-20653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ethan-a-johnson","tag-ethan-allen-johnson","tag-ethan-johnson","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-jeoffry-ray","tag-maude-hines","tag-portland-state-vanguard","tag-the-portland-state-vanguard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653","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=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44351,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions\/44351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}