{"id":36522,"date":"2014-05-26T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36522"},"modified":"2014-05-26T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:15:10","slug":"mixed-four-young-alums-open-up-about-their-multiracial-heritage-and-how-it-shapes-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36522","title":{"rendered":"Mixed:  Four young alums open up about their multiracial heritage and how it shapes them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouthalumnimagazine.com\/mixed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mixed:\u00a0 Four young alums open up about their multiracial heritage and how it shapes them<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouthalumnimagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth Alumni Magzine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouthalumnimagazine.com\/verify?requestedResource=52.pdf&amp;resourceType=issuearchive\" target=\"_blank\">May\/June 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 42-47<\/p>\n<p>Book Excerpt from: Garrod, Andrew, Christina G\u00f3mez, Robert Kilkenny, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=33391\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories<\/em><\/a> (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeking to be Whole<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Shannon Joyce Prince \u201909<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I\u2019ve been called on to define my heritage, I smile and say, \u201cI am African-American, Cherokee (Aniyunwiya) Native American, Chinese (Cantonese) American and English American.\u201d I excise nothing of myself. I claim the slave who was a mathematical genius; the storyteller, the quilt maker and the wise healer; the bilingual railroad laborer; and the farmer\u2014regardless of the amount of melanin in any of their skins. I pay no attention to the pseudoscientific idea of blood quantum (the idea that race is a biological, measurable reality) and am uninterested in dividing myself into fractions, I am completely, concurrently and proudly all of my heritages.<\/p>\n<p>From the time I was able to think about such things, I have considered myself both quadricultural and ana-racial (my personal neologism for \u201cwithout race\u201d). I am zero (raceless) and hoop (part of the peoples from all over the world). I think my parents might have been a little less comfortable in it, but I felt that four peoples had found space in my blood; thus, people of all bloods belonged in every space in general. I was comfortable at school not because I didn\u2019t know who I was but because I did. And I knew who I was because I came from a strong family.<\/p>\n<p>At my secondary school, melanin in an adult person\u2019s skin most likely meant he or she was a menial laborer. In Hanover, melanin was a status symbol: It automatically meant you were an Ivy League student or a professor. Many nonwhite students felt uncomfortable in such a white space, even to the point of leaving the College. I was stunned by their reaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read entire excerpt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140100512100\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed:\u00a0 Four young alums open up about their multiracial heritage and how it shapes them Dartmouth Alumni Magzine May\/June 2014 pages 42-47 Book Excerpt from: Garrod, Andrew, Christina G\u00f3mez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). Seeking to be Whole By Shannon Joyce Prince \u201909 Whenever I\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,20],"tags":[15602,3035,17390,15606,15604],"class_list":["post-36522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-usa","tag-ana-sofia-de-brito","tag-anise-vance","tag-dartmouth-alumni-magzine","tag-shannon-joyce-prince","tag-yuki-kondo-shah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36522","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=36522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}