{"id":38366,"date":"2014-11-17T01:47:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38366"},"modified":"2014-11-17T01:47:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T01:47:12","slug":"reflections-on-the-2014-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38366","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/reflections-on-2014-critical-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID\/Asian<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/multiasianfams\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sharon H. Chang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah. Where do I begin. I&#8217;m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle<\/a> (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.depaul.edu\/NewsReleases\/showNews.aspx?NID=2832\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a>. I&#8217;m exhilarated, emotional, exhausted, enlightened. I got to present some of my research for the first time. After years of researching, [a]\u00a0<em>major<\/em>\u00a0milestone. I got to be with and meet in the flesh so many folk doing great work whom I had mostly only known by name or via social media thumbnails till that point: <strong>Eliaichi Kimaro<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/alotlikeyoumovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Lot Like You<\/em><\/a>; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meditatingbunny.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Chiba Stearns<\/a><\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/onebighapafamily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>One Big Hapa Family<\/em><\/a>, <em>Yellow Sticky Notes<\/em>, and the forthcoming <em>Mixed Match<\/em>; <strong>Megumi Nishikura<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/hafufilm.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hafu<\/em><\/a>; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/a-little-more-about-fanshen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fanshen Cox [Digiovanni]<\/a><\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>One Drop of Love<\/em><\/a> and, with partner <strong>Chandra Crudup<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedrootsstories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a>; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentanabe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Tanabe<\/a><\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovingday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loving Day<\/a>; Co-creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22829\" target=\"_blank\"><em>War Baby \/ Love Child<\/em><\/a> (as well as two of the conference&#8217;s founders) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Kina<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/~aas\/dariotis-wei-ming.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wei Ming Dariotis<\/a><\/strong>; and <strong>Steven Riley<\/strong> of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\" target=\"_blank\">MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/reflections-on-2014-critical-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID\/Asian 2014-11-16 Sharon H. Chang Ah. Where do I begin. I&#8217;m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to Seattle (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in Chicago at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[9487,9486,12723,12484,118,12646,6749,41,3957,517,16772,186,14613,16773,42],"class_list":["post-38366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-arwin-d-smallwood","tag-arwin-smallwood","tag-chandra-crudup","tag-eliaichi-kimaro","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","tag-ken-tanabe","tag-laura-kina","tag-megumi-nishikura","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-multiracial-asian-families","tag-rebecca-chiyoko-king-oriain","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang","tag-wei-ming-dariotis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38366","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=38366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}