{"id":2370,"date":"2009-10-22T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2009-10-22T18:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:42:17","slug":"thinking-outside-the-white-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2370","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Outside the White Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uscnews.usc.edu\/university\/thinking_outside_the_white_box.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thinking Outside the White Box<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>University of Southern California<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uscnews.usc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">USC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristy Lytal<\/strong><br \/>\nOn: 2009-10-12 18:31<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not part this or part that but whole. I am me.\u201d That\u2019s how one of USC\u2019s multiracial students described herself at the Face It!: Project ReMiX Kickoff event at El Centro Chicano on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 students posted Polaroids of themselves on a wall and scribbled self-descriptions that ranged from humorous to heady&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Hosted by Asian Pacific American Student Services, the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs and El Centro Chicano, Project ReMiX \u2014 now in its second year \u2014 provides a space for USC students to discuss and explore the mixed-race generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiracial communities are the fastest-growing communities in this country,\u201d said Sumun Pendakur, director of Asian Pacific American Student Services. \u201cAnd here at USC, about 17 percent of the incoming Asian Americans are mixed, about 24 percent of the incoming African Americans and about 29 percent of the incoming Latino\/Chicano students are mixed. So that\u2019s a huge number of students we\u2019re talking about.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/uscnews.usc.edu\/university\/thinking_outside_the_white_box.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking Outside the White Box University of Southern California USC News Cristy Lytal On: 2009-10-12 18:31 \u201cI am not part this or part that but whole. I am me.\u201d That\u2019s how one of USC\u2019s multiracial students described herself at the Face It!: Project ReMiX Kickoff event at El Centro Chicano on Sept. 22. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,20],"tags":[698,699,696,697],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-cristy-lytal","tag-project-remix","tag-university-of-southern-california","tag-usc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}