{"id":26048,"date":"2012-10-17T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26048"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:42:08","slug":"st-stephen%e2%80%99s-launches-book-about-struggles-with-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26048","title":{"rendered":"St. Stephen\u2019s launches book about struggles with identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuza.com\/news-story\/1312523-st-stephen-s-launches-book-about-struggles-with-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Stephen\u2019s launches book about struggles with identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuza.com\/toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\">City Centre Mirror<\/a><br \/>\nToronto, Canada<br \/>\n2012-10-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Skinner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of talented young men and women from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ststephenshouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Stephen\u2019s Community House<\/a> are hoping their own experiences can help other youth navigate the stereotypes and challenges of growing up biracial.<\/p>\n<p>St. Stephen\u2019s has launched a new book titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25272\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s Not All Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out<\/a><\/em>, which contains poems, short stories and interviews with multiracial writers.<\/p>\n<p>The book delves into the young authors\u2019 own feelings and life experiences as they struggled with issues of identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up and being mixed race, when I\u2019d hang out with my white friends they\u2019d say I act too black and when I\u2019d hang out with my black friends they\u2019d say I act too white,\u201d said contributor Bianca Craven&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuza.com\/news-story\/1312523-st-stephen-s-launches-book-about-struggles-with-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Stephen\u2019s launches book about struggles with identity City Centre Mirror Toronto, Canada 2012-10-17 Justin Skinner A group of talented young men and women from St. Stephen\u2019s Community House are hoping their own experiences can help other youth navigate the stereotypes and challenges of growing up biracial. St. Stephen\u2019s has launched a new book titled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,8],"tags":[12507,12506,12505,12508],"class_list":["post-26048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-bianca-craven","tag-city-centre-mirror","tag-justin-skinner","tag-st-stephens-community-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048","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=26048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51490,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26048\/revisions\/51490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}