{"id":40709,"date":"2015-04-01T02:01:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40709"},"modified":"2015-04-01T02:01:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:01:04","slug":"racial-identity-is-not-merely-a-matter-of-appearance-or-genetics-but-is-one-factor-combined-with-social-and-cultural-experiences-that-have-shaped-each-persons-racial-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40709","title":{"rendered":"Racial identity is not merely a matter of appearance or genetics, but is one factor combined with social and cultural experiences that have shaped each person\u2019s racial experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Racial identity is not merely a matter of appearance or genetics, but is one factor combined with social and cultural experiences that have shaped each person\u2019s racial experience. Policing how multiracial people chose to identify neglects our right to understand the experiences that we feel best reflect ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Audrey Majors, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40703\" target=\"_blank\">Redefining \u2014 by not defining \u2014 biracialism<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Daily Illini<\/em>, (March 31, 2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyillini.com\/opinion\/columns\/article_6ff729b4-d711-11e4-9575-0f53ae9eeb99.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailyillini.com\/opinion\/columns\/article_6ff729b4-d711-11e4-9575-0f53ae9eeb99.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial identity is not merely a matter of appearance or genetics, but is one factor combined with social and cultural experiences that have shaped each person\u2019s racial experience. Policing how multiracial people chose to identify neglects our right to understand the experiences that we feel best reflect ourselves. Audrey Majors, \u201cRedefining \u2014 by not defining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19783,19782,19781],"class_list":["post-40709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-audrey-majors","tag-daily-illini","tag-the-daily-illini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709","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=40709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}