{"id":39282,"date":"2015-01-06T01:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T01:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39282"},"modified":"2015-01-06T01:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T01:27:02","slug":"so-what-are-you-a-multiracial-perspective-on-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39282","title":{"rendered":"So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jossle.org\/magazine\/identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jossle.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">Jossle Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeilaniStacy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Leilani Stacy<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSo, what are you?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a word, \u201cWasian,\u201d or more accurately, \u201cMultiracial.\u201d Specifically, I\u2019m a quarter Japanese, a \u201cmutt\u201d of white\u2014Scottish, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, French, English, German, Danish\u2014and probably a little Native American (don\u2019t worry, I didn\u2019t put that down just to get into colleges) and, contrary to my name, not Hawaiian.<\/p>\n<p>So when the issue of race comes up, one question often arises: Where do I fit in?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure if I ever visited Japan, people wouldn\u2019t consider me \u201cJapanese enough.\u201d Meanwhile in the US, I get a little too tan to be considered \u201cWhite enough.\u201d Additionally, I\u2019ve never felt comfortable joining a Japanese or Asian-American cultural club. And when people start talking about \u201ccultural\u201d traditions or life at home, forget it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jossle.org\/magazine\/identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity Jossle Magazine 2014-11-18 Leilani Stacy Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts \u201cSo, what are you?\u201d In a word, \u201cWasian,\u201d or more accurately, \u201cMultiracial.\u201d Specifically, I\u2019m a quarter Japanese, a \u201cmutt\u201d of white\u2014Scottish, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, French, English, German, Danish\u2014and probably a little Native American (don\u2019t worry, I didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[18992,18993],"class_list":["post-39282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jossle-magazine","tag-leilani-stacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39282","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=39282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}