{"id":27475,"date":"2013-01-10T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27475"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:01:47","slug":"mixed-race-in-the-bible-chino-chicano-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27475","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race in the Bible (“Chino-Chicano” Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Mixed-Race in the Bible (“Chino-Chicano” Part II)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity<\/a>
\n2013-01-09<\/p>\n

Robert Chao Romero<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Chicana\/o Studies and Asian American Studies
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

As an expression of my multiracial struggles, I used to wrestle a lot with the issue of marriage. I used to say to myself: \u201cIf I marry someone who\u2019s Mexican, then my kids will be 75% Mexican. They\u2019ll have a solidified racial identity. If I marry someone who is Chinese, then they\u2019ll be 75% Chinese, probably look mostly Asian, and then they might have some identity problems. If I marry someone who\u2019s Anglo, then my kids will probably look Latino, even though they\u2019ll be only 25% Mexican. But they\u2019ll have the last name Romero, so they\u2019ll probably just pass<\/a> as Latino.\u201d I can\u2019t believe I used to think this way!<\/p>\n

In my heart I knew that this was not the right way to be thinking about marriage. Every time I went down this path of reasoning I would end up deeply frustrated, practically to the point of tears. This is led me, one day in law school to cry out to God and say, \u201cGod, please help me to understand the topic of race from Your perspective!\u201d The answer to that prayer is what I hope to share with you in the next several blog posts.<\/p>\n

After many years of wrestling with my mixed race identity, I feel that God has given me peace, healing, and a deep security in my unique identity. I have discovered a biblically-grounded understanding of race and ethnicity which allows me to be a whole-human being, and which allows me to understand, celebrate, and accept all of who I am. Thank You God. I hope that I might be able to share this understanding with you now, and that what I share might help bring healing to many individuals who have gone through, or are going through, the same struggles I have experienced as a mixed race individual…<\/p>\n

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

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