{"id":42240,"date":"2015-08-13T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42240"},"modified":"2015-08-13T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:58:16","slug":"the-complicated-relationship-between-asian-americans-and-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42240","title":{"rendered":"The complicated relationship between Asian Americans and affirmative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/455397\/why-i-checked-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">The complicated relationship between Asian Americans and affirmative action<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaurenkGurley\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Gurley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In most places, my hair and my skin color don\u2019t stand out in a crowd. In the past, people have mistaken me for Mexican, Italian, Hawaiian, and Israeli. Although sometime this has felt like a privilege and a reason for pride, at other times it has become a source of confusion and guilt. This is the reality of my mixed race identity: half-Japanese and half-white, I still couldn\u2019t tell you whether I technically qualify, or even identify, as a person of color.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, I applied to college in the US and was forced to face this confusion head on during the university admissions process. 2010 was the first year that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_Application\" target=\"_blank\">Common Application<\/a> offered the option for applicants to select two or more races. This has been both a blessing a curse for schools that have long wrestled with students who identified as multi-racial. A decade ago, such applicants at Emory University would have had their race literally chosen for them by an admissions officer.<\/p>\n<p>But my problem was first and foremost a personal one: How did I identify? Growing up in a very white, yet liberal-leaning community in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_California\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California<\/a>, I always wanted to identify with my Asian half in order to stand out. I would squint my eyes in photos to appear more Asian, and ask my mother to pack me bento-box lunches. On standardized tests, I always checked the \u201cAsian\/Pacific Islander\u201d box&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/455397\/why-i-checked-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complicated relationship between Asian Americans and affirmative action Quartz 2015-07-17 Lauren Gurley In most places, my hair and my skin color don\u2019t stand out in a crowd. In the past, people have mistaken me for Mexican, Italian, Hawaiian, and Israeli. Although sometime this has felt like a privilege and a reason for pride, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395],"tags":[20693,19497],"class_list":["post-42240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","tag-lauren-gurley","tag-quartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42240","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=42240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42241,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42240\/revisions\/42241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}