{"id":39081,"date":"2014-12-26T01:27:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39081"},"modified":"2014-12-26T01:27:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:27:33","slug":"mixed-race-cannot-be-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39081","title":{"rendered":"Mixed: Race cannot be invisible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed: Race cannot be invisible<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily of the University of Washington<\/a>
\n2012-10-27<\/p>\n

Hayat Norimine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For most of my life, I was opposed to the concept of \u201cdiversity.\u201d Half-Japanese, half-Syrian, I was the definition of racially diverse, but I also loathed being labeled.<\/p>\n

I thought diversity was difficult to define. I thought race alone was never a good indication of someone\u2019s personal experiences.<\/p>\n

I was afraid of what my race meant. And of all the superpowers that I could wish for, invisibility was always my choice \u2014 not just for me, but for the world. Colorblindness seemed like the opposite of racism to me: Ignore race and move beyond seeing race as essential. To be completely free from judging eyes is something I would have wished on everyone growing up. To be both colorblind and color-free…<\/p>\n

…We don\u2019t live in a post-racial world. Luckily, we live in a world after Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a> We live in a country in which \u201cdiversity\u201d is no longer used as slander and is actually seen as a positive attribute. But even in Brazil<\/a> \u2014 arguably the most diverse country in the world \u2014 where there are up to 500 racial categorizations, there is still discrimination. There is still historical oppression…<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed: Race cannot be invisible The Daily of the University of Washington 2012-10-27 Hayat Norimine For most of my life, I was opposed to the concept of \u201cdiversity.\u201d Half-Japanese, half-Syrian, I was the definition of racially diverse, but I also loathed being labeled. I thought diversity was difficult to define. I thought race alone was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[18870,4009],"class_list":["post-39081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hayat-norimine","tag-the-daily-of-the-university-of-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39081","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=39081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}