{"id":34330,"date":"2013-10-16T01:25:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T01:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34330"},"modified":"2013-10-16T01:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T01:25:26","slug":"holding-onto-the-other-half-of-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34330","title":{"rendered":"Holding Onto The Other Half Of &#8216;Mixed-Race&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/10\/14\/231447526\/holding-onto-the-other-half-of-mixed-race\" target=\"_blank\">Holding Onto The Other Half Of &#8216;Mixed-Race&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/173814508\/the-race-card-project\" target=\"_blank\">the race card project: six word essays<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Edition<\/a><br \/>\nNational Public Radio<br \/>\n2013-10-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/4080709\/steve-inskeep\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Inskeep<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><em>NPR continues a series of conversations about <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/173814508\/the-race-card-project\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Race Card Project<\/em><\/a><em>, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host\/Special Correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100974\/michele-norris\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Norris<\/a> will dip into those six-word stories to explore issues surrounding race and cultural identity for Morning Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again and again, The Race Card Project receives submissions dealing with mixed-race identity; from a child of a mixed-race union, from a parent of mixed-race children or from someone who is trying to figure out how to identify a mixed-race student or colleague, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Those kinds of stories are the largest single category of six-word submissions the Race Card Project receives, says Michele Norris, who curates the project. Many of these entries have a lot to do with labels and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Wilma Stordahl, a Seattle resident who&#8217;s an account manager for a national landscape company, offered one such submission: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/norwegian-with-nappy-hair-doesnt-fit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norwegian with Nappy Hair Doesn&#8217;t Fit.<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/10\/14\/231447526\/holding-onto-the-other-half-of-mixed-race\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=2&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=231447526&amp;m=233790757\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=231447526\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding Onto The Other Half Of &#8216;Mixed-Race&#8217; the race card project: six word essays Morning Edition National Public Radio 2013-10-14 Steve Inskeep, Host NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. 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