{"id":36552,"date":"2014-05-29T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36552"},"modified":"2014-05-29T20:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:48:26","slug":"mixedracestudies-org-celebrates-its-fifth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36552","title":{"rendered":"MixedRaceStudies.org Celebrates Its Fifth Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>MixedRaceStudies.org Celebrates Its Fifth Year!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>2014-05-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steven F. Riley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\" target=\"_blank\">MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a> celebrates its fifth year. The purpose of the site, to provide a non-commercial gateway to interdisciplinary English language scholarship about multiraciality, has held steady for the last five years. Since then, the amount of content has mushroomed to over 7,000 posts and I continue to maintain the site today.<\/p>\n<p>At this five-year mark, a collection of nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?cat=12\" target=\"_blank\">4,000 articles<\/a>, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?cat=11\" target=\"_blank\">1,100 books<\/a>, and thousands of other items from various media sources are available to peruse. The site design provides links for users to follow, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?cat=3\" target=\"_blank\">excerpted remarks and passages<\/a> to educate, illuminate, and pique a reader&#8217;s curiosity. Since early 2014, the site now has an active <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=27208\" target=\"_blank\">bibliography of books<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Part of the enjoyment of maintaining the site is that I have to continually update categories to keep pace with the ever-evolving field of mixed race studies.<\/p>\n<p>Users from all over the world have corresponded with me, often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5750\" target=\"_blank\">commending the richness and usefulness of the material<\/a>. One Ph.D. student wrote to say, &#8220;It&#8217;s probably the single most valuable tool in my work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five years into its existence, the site now welcomes over 2,500 visitors per day; logging over 750,000 page views per month.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MixedRaceStudies.org Celebrates Its Fifth Year! 2014-05-29 Steven F. Riley This month, MixedRaceStudies.org celebrates its fifth year. The purpose of the site, to provide a non-commercial gateway to interdisciplinary English language scholarship about multiraciality, has held steady for the last five years. Since then, the amount of content has mushroomed to over 7,000 posts and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9139,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-pov","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552","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=36552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}