{"id":28721,"date":"2013-02-12T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28721"},"modified":"2013-02-12T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:44:57","slug":"trend-6-who-am-i-the-rise-of-multiple-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28721","title":{"rendered":"Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversityjournal.com\/10188-trend-6-who-am-i-the-rise-of-multiple-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversityjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Profiles in Diversity Journal<\/a><br \/>\n2013-02-08<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintersgroup.com\/mary-frances-winters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mary-Frances Winters<\/a><\/strong>, CEO<br \/>\n<em>The Winters Group, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am Latina, Muslim, millennial, mother and I want you to understand all of me.\u201d The check the one box identity answer is a thing of the past. Diversity and inclusion practitioners will have to understand the multi-dimensional intersections of identities that employees want acknowledged, valued and respected.<\/p>\n<p>Andres Tapia, President of Diversity Best Practices, and I co-authored a paper in 2011 entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversitybestpractices.com\/publications\/who-am-i-who-are-we-%E2%80%93-really\" target=\"_blank\">Who Am I? Who Are We- Really?<\/a><\/em> which explores the multiple identities of individuals, organizations, and nations. We posited that a one dimensional view of diversity was a fundamental flaw in the current models of diversity work.<\/p>\n<p>We all have multiple identities. No one is uni-dimensional. I identify as an African American woman, a baby boomer, a widow, a mother, a liberal with parents of Canadian heritage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> exemplifies the conundrum of intersection of multiple identities well. His father is from Kenya and his mother was white American, officially making him bi-racial. He lived in Indonesia and Hawaii during his formative years, making him what anthropologists call a \u201cThird Culture kid. However he is most often identified in a uni-dimensional way as \u201cAfrican American\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Consider these statistics:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversityjournal.com\/10188-trend-6-who-am-i-the-rise-of-multiple-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities Profiles in Diversity Journal 2013-02-08 Mary-Frances Winters, CEO The Winters Group, Inc. \u201cI am Latina, Muslim, millennial, mother and I want you to understand all of me.\u201d The check the one box identity answer is a thing of the past. Diversity and inclusion practitioners will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,20],"tags":[13642,13641],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-mary-frances-winters","tag-profiles-in-diversity-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721","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=28721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}