{"id":25525,"date":"2012-09-22T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25525"},"modified":"2016-11-28T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T00:42:27","slug":"rutgers-group-brings-students-together-to-explore-the-complexities-of-being-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25525","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Focus<\/a>
\nRutgers University News<\/a>
\nSeptember 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

Carrie Stetler<\/strong><\/p>\n

By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: \u201cWhat are you?\u201d She instantly knows what it means.<\/p>\n

Her father is Chinese and her mother is Greek, so when people meet her for the first time, they often have trouble identifying her ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Gan, a Rutgers junior who grew up in Parsippany<\/a>, understands their curiosity, and the questions don\u2019t really bother her. But other aspects of growing up biracial were harder to negotiate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn high school I saw lots of ethnic clubs, and at colleges, too, and I didn\u2019t really know which one to join,\u201d says Gan, an environmental science major. \u201cEven though I\u2019m technically Asian, people don\u2019t consider me one of them and technically I\u2019m white, but people don\u2019t always consider me that, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her first year at Rutgers, Gan discovered Fusion: Rutgers Union of Mixed People, which gives her and other students an opportunity to come together and explore the challenges and complexities of being multiracial…<\/p>\n

…Fusion began seven years ago when Rutgers psychology professor Diana Sanchez<\/a>, who is now the club\u2019s adviser, started researching biracial and multiracial identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a way of connection multiracial students and getting participants for my research, I asked a student I knew to start an organization and he did,\u2019\u2019 says Sanchez, an an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, in the School of Arts and Sciences.. \u201cMultiracial people hold a unique view of race; they\u2019ve questioned it in a very different way. If you feel \u2018in between\u2019 communities, there is another identity you form that has to do with the merging of both those identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillip Handy, who graduated in 2009, was one of the co-founders of Fusion. He is half European and half African American. \u201cRacial conversations at Rutgers … often viewed race in a very categorical way,\u201d says Handy, who grew up in Howell<\/a> and now lives in California.\u201cI thought the discussions would be enhanced by a multiracial student group.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It\u2019s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: \u201cWhat are you?\u201d She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[10736,286,274,12086,12087,12085,1677,2536,12084],"class_list":["post-25525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carrie-stetler","tag-diana-sanchez","tag-diana-t-sanchez","tag-focus","tag-fusion-rutgers-union-of-mixed-people","tag-joan-gan","tag-phillip-handy","tag-rutgers-university","tag-rutgers-university-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525","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=25525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47562,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions\/47562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}