{"id":26156,"date":"2012-10-24T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26156"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:29:04","slug":"biracial-identity-trying-to-%ef%ac%81t-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26156","title":{"rendered":"Biracial identity: trying to \ufb01t in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2012\/10\/biracial-identity-trying-to-t-in\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial identity: trying to \ufb01t in<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Tar Heel<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of North Carolina<br \/>\n2012-10-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:anharper@live.unc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Averi Harper<\/a><\/strong>, Columnist<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re Hispanic, right?<\/p>\n<p>No? Well, are you Middle Eastern?<\/p>\n<p>No? Then what are you?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that\u2019s so interesting!<\/p>\n<p>The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity.<\/p>\n<p>Biracial identity has been catapulted to the forefront of American culture with the political rise of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> to president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The president was born to a Kenyan father and an American mother and considers himself African-American. He has acknowledged the difficulties of growing up biracial. He was often teased and, to make matters worse, he had a distanced relationship with his father.<\/p>\n<p>The issues that existed for the president pertaining to racial identity and social acceptance exist for many Americans.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 7 million people in the United States who identify as two or more races, with more than 180,000 of those are right here in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina<\/a>, and those numbers are on the rise. There are about 850 students at UNC who identify as more than one race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2012\/10\/biracial-identity-trying-to-t-in\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial identity: trying to \ufb01t in The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2012-10-22 Averi Harper, Columnist You\u2019re Hispanic, right? No? Well, are you Middle Eastern? No? Then what are you? Oh, that\u2019s so interesting! The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity. Biracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[12578,12577,879,12576],"class_list":["post-26156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-averi-harper","tag-daily-tar-heel","tag-north-carolina","tag-the-daily-tar-heel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26156","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=26156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}