{"id":42642,"date":"2015-09-10T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42642"},"modified":"2015-09-10T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:06:22","slug":"all-mixed-up-examining-mixed-children-and-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42642","title":{"rendered":"All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thelasource.com\/en\/2015\/09\/07\/all-mixed-up-examining-mixed-children-and-unions-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelasource.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Source<\/a><br \/>\nVancouver, British Columbia, Canada<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thelasource.com\/media\/vol16no05_English_lowres.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 16, Issue 5<\/a> (September 8-22, 2015)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Florence Hwang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Chang<\/a> says she embodies \u201cmixedness.\u201d Chang\u2019s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hapapalooza.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hapapalooza festival<\/a>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42502\" target=\"_blank\">Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop<\/a>\u201d will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartwoodcc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heartwood Community Caf\u00e9<\/a>, Sept. 19 from 6\u20138 p.m. The Hapapalooza festival celebrates mixed heritage and hybrid cultural identity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bring my lived life to the table. I also now bring the experiences of my family (my husband and son are also mixed) to the table,\u201d says Chang, a mixed-race parenting expert and activist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children and race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every single experience Chang has had with others is inevitably a multiracial exchange. Her father is from Taiwan and her mother is Caucasian American of Slovakian, German and French Canadian descent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what does all this mean for mixed-race children growing up across racial boundaries? How can we raise multiracial kids to feel good about themselves in a raced world?\u201d asks Chang, who will be sharing some of her findings from her new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=37319\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Raising Mixed Race<\/em><\/a>, which will be released later this fall.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chang, children have used racial reasoning to discriminate against their peers by the ages of four or five. Children see and hear everything and racism is woven into the very fabric of society. Research also shows children as young as six months are able to categorize people by race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thelasource.com\/en\/2015\/09\/07\/all-mixed-up-examining-mixed-children-and-unions-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions The Source Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Volume 16, Issue 5 (September 8-22, 2015) Florence Hwang Sharon Chang says she embodies \u201cmixedness.\u201d Chang\u2019s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year\u2019s Hapapalooza festival: \u201cRaising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop\u201d will be at the Heartwood Community Caf\u00e9, Sept. 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,414,125,8,20],"tags":[21003,14613,16773,21004],"class_list":["post-42642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-florence-hwang","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang","tag-the-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642","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=42642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42643,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642\/revisions\/42643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}