{"id":41440,"date":"2015-06-17T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41440"},"modified":"2015-06-17T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:33:20","slug":"how-fluid-is-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41440","title":{"rendered":"How Fluid Is Racial Identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2015\/06\/16\/how-fluid-is-racial-identity\" target=\"_blank\">How Fluid Is Racial Identity?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\" target=\"_blank\">Room for Debate<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heidi W. Durrow<\/strong>, Novelist<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Kay Erekson<\/strong>, President<br \/>\n<em>MAVIN<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Angela Onwuachi-Willig<\/strong>, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Leong<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of Denver<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Hugo Lopez<\/strong>, Director of Hispanic Research<br \/>\n<em>Pew Research Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Noble Maillard<\/strong>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Syracuse University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy month for exploring boundaries of identity. Should Emma Stone <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/03\/emma-stone-as-asian-american-cameron-crowe-apologizes\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">play an Asian character<\/a> in the movie \u201cHawaii?\u201d Is Caitlyn Jenner a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/what-makes-a-woman.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201creal\u201d woman<\/a>? Did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/17\/us\/rachel-dolezal-nbc-today-show.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> commit racial fraud? The chatter accompanying these examples underscores a fundamental suspicion of personal ambiguity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2015\/06\/11\/multiracial-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">multiracial couplings<\/a> and births are at an all time high. People may view themselves as multiracial, monoracial or they change their identity over time. How fluid is racial identity, and where will we be in 50 years?<\/p>\n<p>Read the discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2015\/06\/16\/how-fluid-is-racial-identity\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Fluid Is Racial Identity? Room for Debate The New York Times 2015-06-17 Heidi W. Durrow, Novelist Amanda Kay Erekson, President MAVIN Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,14646,1467,8,394,20],"tags":[20259,20258,863,65,64,4330,1234,14994,1959,2640,7549,2327],"class_list":["post-41440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-law","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-amanda-erekson","tag-amanda-kay-erekson","tag-angela-onwuachi-willig","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-kevin-maillard","tag-kevin-noble-maillard","tag-mark-hugo-lopez","tag-nancy-leong","tag-new-york-times","tag-room-for-debate","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41440","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=41440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}