{"id":40982,"date":"2015-04-27T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40982"},"modified":"2015-04-27T21:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T21:44:02","slug":"ticking-the-box-finding-a-place-for-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40982","title":{"rendered":"Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcs.cam.ac.uk\/comment\/0034154-ticking-the-box-finding-a-place-for-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcs.cam.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Cambridge Student<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2015-04-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/classic_chase\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chase Caldwell Smith<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my life, I have been told many things \u2013 that I \u201clook like a bit of a foreigner\u201d or that \u201cI couldn\u2019t tell you were part-Asian before \u2013 I can definitely see it now.\u201d I\u2019ve been informed, jokingly, that I\u2019m basically \u201cthe blackest person\u201d in the room, or told, imaginatively, that \u201call Asians look alike\u201d anyway. Or my personal favourite, that because my mother is Asian and my father white, that I \u201clive in one of those kinds of families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s much talk about race in Cambridge, with the establishment of <a href=\"http:\/\/flygirlsofcambridge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FLY<\/a> two years ago igniting a much-needed debate on how we should discuss racial discrimination in a university as multicultural as our own. I know for a fact that other students have been forced to confront much more discrimination than the little I have faced. But I still can\u2019t help feeling that sometimes, much of the debate over race seems to pitch a cut-and-dry privileged majority, usually white, against a generalized group of underprivileged minorities, usually non-white. The issues dividing these groups are painfully real: I am not in any way refuting this.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am concerned that this debate between a clearly delineated majority and minority has the unintended consequence of leaving out the voices of the students in-between \u2013 people like me who are neither all-white nor all-Asian, for example. It is sometimes difficult to take part because we don\u2019t fit into the existing scheme of privilege and oppression: we are constantly uncertain of which \u2018category\u2019 we fit into, and perhaps, should fit into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcs.cam.ac.uk\/comment\/0034154-ticking-the-box-finding-a-place-for-mixed-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race The Cambridge Student University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2015-04-25 Chase Caldwell Smith In my life, I have been told many things \u2013 that I \u201clook like a bit of a foreigner\u201d or that \u201cI couldn\u2019t tell you were part-Asian before \u2013 I can definitely see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2895,8,10,20],"tags":[19982,19981],"class_list":["post-40982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","tag-chase-caldwell-smith","tag-the-cambridge-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982","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=40982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}