{"id":34658,"date":"2013-11-11T20:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34658"},"modified":"2014-10-26T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:17:14","slug":"seeing-opportunity-in-a-question-where-are-you-really-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34658","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Opportunity In A Question: &#8216;Where Are You Really From?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/11\/11\/242357164\/seeing-opportunity-in-a-question-where-are-you-really-from\" target=\"_blank\">Seeing Opportunity In A Question: &#8216;Where Are You Really From?&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Edition<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2013-11-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100929\/renee-montagne\" target=\"_blank\">Renee Montagne<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/4080709\/steve-inskeep\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Inskeep<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100974\/michele-norris\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Norris<\/a><\/strong>, Host\/Special Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><em>NPR continues a series of conversations about <a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Race Card Project<\/a>, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host\/Special Correspondent Michele Norris will dip into those six-word stories to explore issues surrounding race and cultural identity for <\/em>Morning Edition<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are you from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, really, where are you from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those questions about identity and appearance come up again and again in submissions to The Race Card Project. In some cases, Norris tells <em>Morning Edition<\/em>&#8216;s Steve Inskeep, people say it feels accusatory \u2014 like, &#8216;Do you really belong?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a question that Alex Sugiura, because of his racially ambiguous appearance, can&#8217;t seem to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Sugiura, 27, is the child of a first-generation Japanese immigrant father and a Jewish mother of Eastern European descent. Sugiura&#8217;s brother Max looks more identifiably Asian, but when people meet Alex, they&#8217;re often not satisfied to hear that he&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/11\/11\/242357164\/seeing-opportunity-in-a-question-where-are-you-really-from\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=242357164&amp;m=244452971\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the audio <a href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/me\/2013\/11\/20131111_me_14.mp3?dl=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=242357164\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing Opportunity In A Question: &#8216;Where Are You Really From?&#8217; Morning Edition National Public Radio 2013-11-11 Renee Montagne, Host Steve Inskeep, Host Michele Norris, Host\/Special Correspondent 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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