{"id":26005,"date":"2012-10-15T20:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26005"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:30:46","slug":"student-organized-conference-to-focus-on-mixed-race-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26005","title":{"rendered":"Student-Organized Conference To Focus on &#8216;Mixed-Race Experience&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/2000\/04.13\/interracial.html\" target=\"_blank\">Student-Organized Conference To Focus on &#8216;Mixed-Race Experience&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Havard University Gazette<\/a><br \/>\n2000-04-13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ken Gewertz<\/strong>, Gazette Staff<\/p>\n<p>For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from.<\/p>\n<p>But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger \u201902 remembers from her family dinner table were a little different from most.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes my mom would make Chinese dishes and then add potatoes to them, or she would serve sauerkraut on the side,&#8221; Weisinger said<\/p>\n<p>This combination of cuisines seemed natural in Weisinger\u2019s family because her mother is a Chinese-American from Hawaii and her father a German-American from Wisconsin. The two met when they were students at M.I.T.<\/p>\n<p>This makes Weisinger a mixed-race American, one of a rapidly expanding group that has been receiving considerable attention of late. According to one estimate, mixed-race births are increasing at a rate 260 times as fast as all births combined. In some urban centers, one in every six babies is multiracial. Census experts estimate that by 2050, there will be over 27 million biracial and multiracial Americans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/2000\/04.13\/interracial.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student-Organized Conference To Focus on &#8216;Mixed-Race Experience&#8217; Havard University Gazette 2000-04-13 Ken Gewertz, Gazette Staff For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger \u201902 remembers from her family dinner table were a little different from most. &#8220;Sometimes my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8413,8,394,20],"tags":[12488,12487],"class_list":["post-26005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-havard-university-gazette","tag-ken-gewertz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005","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=26005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}