{"id":32206,"date":"2013-07-10T03:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T03:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32206"},"modified":"2013-07-10T03:53:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T03:53:22","slug":"new-class-the-multiracial-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32206","title":{"rendered":"New class: The Multiracial Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/news\/new-class-the-multiracial-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">New class: The Multiracial Experience<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Portland State Vanguard<\/a><br \/>\nPortland, Oregon<br \/>\n2013-01-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gwen Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The eye of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Black Studies professor <a href=\"http:\/\/pdx.edu\/blackstudies\/ethan-johnson-biography\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Johnson<\/a> calls the Northwest, when it comes to multiracialism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Northwest has some of the highest rates, within the black community in particular, of marrying outside of their race\u2014in the whole country,\u201d<\/strong> Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>This fact, along with many others, is discussed in Johnson\u2019s course, titled \u201cThe Multiracial Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson explained that the course has three focuses: interracial relationships, both friend and romantic; transracial adoptions; and people who identify as, or are identified as, multiracial.<\/p>\n<p>With a primary focus on discussion, the class looks into these topics and considers how gender, class and sexuality play roles in the multiracial experience. In class, students will look at and discuss poetry, commercials, pop culture, music and documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see myself as a facilitator of discussion,\u201d Johnson said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/news\/new-class-the-multiracial-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New class: The Multiracial Experience The Portland State Vanguard Portland, Oregon 2013-01-16 Gwen Shaw The eye of the storm. That\u2019s what Black Studies professor Ethan Johnson calls the Northwest, when it comes to multiracialism. \u201cThe Northwest has some of the highest rates, within the black community in particular, of marrying outside of their race\u2014in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[9686,9685,9684,15141,9683,9682],"class_list":["post-32206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ethan-a-johnson","tag-ethan-allen-johnson","tag-ethan-johnson","tag-gwen-shaw","tag-portland-state-vanguard","tag-the-portland-state-vanguard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206","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=32206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}