{"id":33903,"date":"2013-09-28T04:02:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T04:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33903"},"modified":"2013-09-28T04:02:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T04:02:38","slug":"northwestern-sophomores-form-group-for-mixed-race-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33903","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern sophomores form group for mixed race students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynorthwestern.com\/2013\/09\/26\/campus\/northwestern-sophomores-form-group-for-mixed-race-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northwestern sophomores form group for mixed race students<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynorthwestern.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Northwestern<\/a><br \/>\nEvanston, Illinois<br \/>\n2013-09-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Gerez<\/a> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/JGerez_news\" target=\"_blank\">(@JGerez_news<\/a>), Reporter<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, Medill sophomore Kalina Silverman, a half-Chinese, half-White, Jewish student browsed through the bustling activities fair. Amid the numerous student cultural groups, Silverman couldn\u2019t find a home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to a couple events hosted by the Chinese Students Association, and Hillel and I didn\u2019t feel like I fully fit in,\u201d Silverman said.<\/p>\n<p>Silverman&#8217;s friend, SESP sophomore Tori Marquez, had a similar problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI identify as mixed race because I don\u2019t feel completely comfortable identifying myself just as Caucasian or just as Hispanic \u2026 Even as a Hispanic, I\u2019m also Mexican and Peruvian,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, what started as two friends joking about forming a club for people like them became the Mixed Race Student Coalition, known as MIXED.<\/p>\n<p>The club was recognized by the office of Multicultural Student Affairs this summer. Marquez and Silverman are now the co-presidents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynorthwestern.com\/2013\/09\/26\/campus\/northwestern-sophomores-form-group-for-mixed-race-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern sophomores form group for mixed race students The Daily Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 2013-09-26 Julian Gerez (@JGerez_news), Reporter One year ago, Medill sophomore Kalina Silverman, a half-Chinese, half-White, Jewish student browsed through the bustling activities fair. Amid the numerous student cultural groups, Silverman couldn\u2019t find a home. \u201cI went to a couple events hosted by [&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":[15953,15954,15955,15952,15956],"class_list":["post-33903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-daily-northwestern","tag-julian-gerez","tag-kalina-silverman","tag-the-daily-northwestern","tag-tori-marquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903","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=33903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}