{"id":40798,"date":"2015-04-10T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40798"},"modified":"2015-04-10T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T01:23:14","slug":"biracial-identity-which-do-you-identify-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40798","title":{"rendered":"Biracial Identity, which do you identify with?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spartandaily.com\/137148\/biracial-identity-identify\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Biracial Identity, which do you identify with?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spartandaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934<\/a><br \/>\nSan Jose, California<br \/>\n2015-04-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:andreaxsandoval@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andrea Sandoval<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Identity is a complicated matter; everyone has one, but rarely are people aware of how they get one. The boundaries, symbols and language that make identity stand out are often unclear.<\/p>\n<p>What qualities make one the person they are?<\/p>\n<p>Skin color, hair texture and eye shape are all obvious characteristics when identity comes into play.<\/p>\n<p>Being biracial, or being a part of two racial groups, can raise questions as to which ethnic group to identify with. Being multiracial may be even harder, but race remains a commonly used term for categorization.<\/p>\n<p>According to psychologist Bryan Gros, there is no proof that multiracial students have more issues such as depression or anxiety then the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that multiracial people together with blacks, Hispanics and Asians, will represent a majority of the U.S. population by mid-century. Right now, about 8 percent of the population is multiracial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/spartandaily.com\/137148\/biracial-identity-identify\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial Identity, which do you identify with? The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934 San Jose, California 2015-04-09 Andrea Sandoval Identity is a complicated matter; everyone has one, but rarely are people aware of how they get one. The boundaries, symbols and language that make identity stand out are often unclear. What qualities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[19841,19838,19842,19840,19839,17964,19843],"class_list":["post-40798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alexandra-levine","tag-andrea-sandoval","tag-bryan-gros","tag-cemone-cowart","tag-james-colbert","tag-the-spartan-daily","tag-the-spartan-daily-serving-san-jose-state-since-1934"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798","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=40798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}