{"id":26008,"date":"2012-10-15T20:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26008"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:43:12","slug":"under-the-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26008","title":{"rendered":"Under the skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2012\/10\/under-the-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Under the skin<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Havard University Gazette<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Lester<\/strong>, Harvard Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><em>Deep experience informs panelists\u2019 views on mixed-race life in U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Carmen Fields\u2019 future husband asked her to meet his mother, Fields refused. \u201cNo way. I didn\u2019t want to be the reason she opened up the front door and dropped the Easter ham,\u201d she told a Harvard audience on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAn African-American whose spouse is white, Fields knows from experience that life in the United States holds unique challenges for mixed-race couples and their children.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFields and fellow panel members \u2014 among them College junior Eliza Nguyen \u2014addressed some of those issues during a discussion called \u201cAmerican Masala: Race Mixing, the Spice of Life or Watering Down Cultures?\u201d at the Student Organization Center at Hilles.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/harvardhapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Half Asian People\u2019s Association<\/a> (HAPA), distinctly remembers the moment it dawned on her that she was neither white, like her mother, nor Vietnamese, like her father. \u201cI was in the fourth grade, taking a standardized test. And they had that box you were supposed to check off.\u201d There was no box for biracial, and she was instructed to check only one. Nguyen, perplexed, asked her teacher which box to check. She was the only nonwhite student in her school. \u201cAsian, of course,\u201d her teacher told her. \u201cI was confused,\u201d said Nguyen. \u201cWho am I?\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2012\/10\/under-the-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the skin Havard University Gazette 2012-10-12 Aaron Lester, Harvard Correspondent Deep experience informs panelists\u2019 views on mixed-race life in U.S. When Carmen Fields\u2019 future husband asked her to meet his mother, Fields refused. \u201cNo way. I didn\u2019t want to be the reason she opened up the front door and dropped the Easter ham,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,394,20],"tags":[12492,12491,12489,12490,12488],"class_list":["post-26008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aaron-lester","tag-carmen-fields","tag-e-dolores-johnson","tag-eliza-nguyen","tag-havard-university-gazette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008","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=26008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}