{"id":26187,"date":"2012-10-24T23:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26187"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:02:50","slug":"students-more-likely-to-identify-as-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26187","title":{"rendered":"Students more likely to identify as multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students more likely to identify as multiracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Stanford Daily: Breaking News from the Farm Since 1892<\/a>
\nStanford University
\n2012-10-24<\/p>\n

Taylor Chambers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erika Roach \u201913 identifies herself as \u201cBlasian,\u201d while Marcus Montanez-Leaks \u201913 says he\u2019s \u201cBlexican.\u201d<\/p>\n

These terms and others used to describe mixed race individuals are becoming more common in conversation and student groups focused on mixed race issues have begun popping up on campus, a trend mirroring the rise in applications.<\/p>\n

Mixed race applicants to Stanford are \u201cone of the fastest growing groups,\u201d according to Dean of Admissions Richard Shaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the 2011-12 academic year, 11.6 percent of undergraduates identified their racial\/ethnic category as \u201ctwo or more races,\u201d up from 8.4 percent the previous year. 2010-11 was the first year the University began collecting data on mixed race individuals.<\/p>\n

In 2011, the Department of Education started requiring universities to collect more information about applicants\u2019 race and ethnicity. Many college applications, including the Common Application that Stanford uses, now allow students to check multiple boxes when it comes to describing their racial and ethnic identities.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents [telling] us exactly what their racial background is \u2026 not a mandatory request. It is optional,\u201d Shaw said. He added that the ability to self-identify accurately is a crucial part of the college admissions process.<\/p>\n

For students who identify with more than one heritage, the ability to check all that apply on the racial background section of college admissions proves crucial to establishing their identity…<\/p>\n

…Michele Elam<\/a>, English professor and author of a 2011 book on mixed race, The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium<\/a><\/em>, argues that diversity remains an important consideration among many others in college admissions, but does not believe that students are simply \u201ccynically trying to game the system by checking as many boxes as possible.\u201d
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\n\u201cA lot of young high school students when doing college admissions are just coming of age politically and racially,\u201d Elam said. \u201cSome may not have thought of themselves as having a distinct mixed identity before being asked to check multiple boxes.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

Students more likely to identify as multiracial The Stanford Daily: Breaking News from the Farm Since 1892 Stanford University 2012-10-24 Taylor Chambers Erika Roach \u201913 identifies herself as \u201cBlasian,\u201d while Marcus Montanez-Leaks \u201913 says he\u2019s \u201cBlexican.\u201d These terms and others used to describe mixed race individuals are becoming more common in conversation and student groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2895,8,20],"tags":[1386,12588,10357,3233,12587,2772],"class_list":["post-26187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-michele-elam","tag-richard-shaw","tag-stanford-daily","tag-stanford-university","tag-taylor-chambers","tag-the-stanford-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26187","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=26187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}