{"id":30826,"date":"2013-05-05T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30826"},"modified":"2013-11-21T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:44:59","slug":"the-race-of-birth-systemic-racism-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30826","title":{"rendered":"The Race of Birth: Systemic Racism Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/the-race-of-birth-systemic-racism-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Race of Birth: Systemic Racism Again?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racism Review<\/a><br \/>\n2013-05-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/02459040772153166380\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Chang<\/a><\/strong>, Guest blogger<br \/>\n<em>Multiracial Asian Families<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other day I was reading and came across this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prior to 1989, the race on a newborn\u2019s birth certificate was determined by the race of the parents. An infant with one White parent was assigned the race of the non-White parent. If neither parent was White, the child was assigned the race of the father. Since 1989, the race of the mother has been indicated as the child\u2019s race on the birth certificate.[Note 1 below]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course being the mother of a multiracial Asian child, my curiosity was massively peaked. I didn\u2019t remember identifying my son\u2019s race\/ethnicity after he was born. Did nurses mark it for us? What did they put considering both my husband and I are multiracial Asian too? I rushed to find my son\u2019s birth certificate. No race listed. End of story? Of course not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Ultimately this all gets pretty sticky when we consider birth certificate data has played a long-standing role in public health planning, action and funding. Leaving me, as always, with more questions than answers. <em>How does the inaccuracy of recording mixed race impact the lives and representation of multiracial people? And how do us parents experience this inaccuracy as we are asked again and again to identify our multiracial children?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racismreview.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/the-race-of-birth-systemic-racism-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Race of Birth: Systemic Racism Again? Racism Review 2013-05-05 Sharon Chang, Guest blogger Multiracial Asian Families The other day I was reading and came across this: Prior to 1989, the race on a newborn\u2019s birth certificate was determined by the race of the parents. An infant with one White parent was assigned the race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,20],"tags":[2669,14613],"class_list":["post-30826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-racism-review","tag-sharon-chang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826","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=30826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}