{"id":23336,"date":"2012-05-24T01:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23336"},"modified":"2012-05-24T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:03:34","slug":"breaking-the-race-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23336","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Race Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/360magazine.org\/2012\/05\/breaking-the-race-barrier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking the Race Barrier<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/360magazine.org\" target=\"_blank\">360 Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nIthica College<br \/>\n2012-05-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Torres<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Puerto Rican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, \u201cI\u2019m from New York.\u201d Then the person rephrases the question, \u201cWhat are you? What is your background?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I come from a Puerto Rican family that is short and loud. Actually, I\u2019m a little West Indian, too, on my mother\u2019s side. I also say I\u2019m Hispanic but I have been told that label falls under ethnicity. I\u2019m a little displaced when it comes to the question of race. Growing up, my family used to chuckle about the race section on the Census. We always lingered on that section a bit longer than the others trying to decide what box or boxes we should check off.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, when I was a freshman at Ithaca College, none of my peers cared about the Census. It was just another survey and spring finals were coming up. Yet, although it was a single sheet of paper, I felt that it was another symbol of young adulthood. It was my turn to decide for myself how I was going to answer the race question. <em>What is Person 1\u2019s race? Mark X one or more boxes. <\/em>I paused, pen hovering, weighing my options&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/360magazine.org\/2012\/05\/breaking-the-race-barrier\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres \u201cI\u2019m Puerto Rican.\u201d That\u2019s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, \u201cI\u2019m from New York.\u201d Then the person rephrases the question, \u201cWhat are you? What 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":[12,2895,33,125,8,26,20],"tags":[10872,10873],"class_list":["post-23336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-360-magazine","tag-danielle-torres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336","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=23336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}