{"id":26290,"date":"2012-10-30T03:07:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26290"},"modified":"2012-10-30T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T03:07:10","slug":"mixed-race-issues-to-be-examined-at-depaul-university-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26290","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Issues to be Examined at DePaul University Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.depaul.edu\/NewsReleases\/showNews.aspx?NID=2518\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Issues to be Examined at DePaul University Forum<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DePaul University<br \/>\nNews Release<br \/>\n2012-10-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.depaul.edu\/NewsReleases\/showNews.aspx?NID=2518\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom.depaul.edu\/NewsReleases\/download2.aspx?f=2012102913743Mixed+Race+Conference.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Americans of mixed racial ancestry continue to grow in number and diversity, the demographic, social, political and cultural implications for the country become more complex. These issues will be examined from a variety of perspectives at a groundbreaking conference that will bring scholars and artists from around the United States and the world to DePaul University Nov. 1 through 4.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe conference will include 50 programs featuring research presentations, panel discussions and performances that explore various aspects of the emerging field of Critical Mixed Race Studies. More than 150 presenters from the U.S. and other countries, including the Philippines and the United Kingdom, are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Individual programs will examine issues such as discrimination against mixed race persons, mixed race student organizations and mixed race gender and sexuality issues. Individual panel topics include: \u201cAssessing Mixed Race Iconography: Barack Obama and Tiger Woods;\u201d \u201cClearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Mixed Race Identities;\u201d and \u201cMedia, Celebrity and Beauty: The Visuals of Mixed Race.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll programs are free and open to the public. A full schedule of events, times and locations is online <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c4c5zgz\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.depaul.edu\/NewsReleases\/showNews.aspx?NID=2518\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race Issues to be Examined at DePaul University Forum DePaul University News Release 2012-10-29 As Americans of mixed racial ancestry continue to grow in number and diversity, the demographic, social, political and cultural implications for the country become more complex. These issues will be examined from a variety of perspectives at a groundbreaking conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,13,20],"tags":[4204,1458],"class_list":["post-26290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-upcoming-media","category-liveevents","category-usa","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","tag-depaul-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290","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=26290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}