{"id":42971,"date":"2015-09-28T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42971"},"modified":"2015-09-28T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:43:22","slug":"mixed-race-students-struggle-to-find-their-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42971","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race students struggle to find their identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2015\/09\/mixed-race-students-find-their-niche\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race students struggle to find their identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Pennsylvanian<\/a><br \/>\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania<br \/>\n2015-09-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Winston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many students seem to effortlessly fit into cultural groups at Penn [University of Pennsylvania], but for some, it\u2019s more complicated than simply choosing one.<\/p>\n<p>For mixed-race students, finding racial or cultural groups to identify with can be more of a challenge. Being from a mixed cultural background comes with unique experiences that are more complex than simply combining the two \u2014 or more.<\/p>\n<p>College sophomore Emily Marucci is Chinese, but was adopted into a white family at a very young age. She said people \u201care always confused [why] my last name is Italian. It\u2019s too long to be Asian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like sometimes I\u2019m expected to be in different circles than I am,\u201d Marucci added. \u201cRacially, I\u2019m supposed to be Asian-American, but I identify more as white. No one ever thinks that when they look at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wharton sophomore Deena Char also identifies with this frustration. With a mix of Japanese, French and Native-American backgrounds, she finds it insulting when people pigeonhole her into one identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because I\u2019m Asian, it doesn\u2019t mean that I want to be in an Asian organization,\u201d Char said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the struggles mixed-race people face is formally identifying their ethnicities on demographic forms. Often they must fill in a bubble marked \u201cother,\u201d choose one identity over the other or occasionally have the option to choose a \u201cmultiracial\u201d or \u201cmixed\u201d bubble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo lump us all into one \u2018none of the above\u2019 category just doesn\u2019t feel right,\u201d Wharton sophomore Avery Stephenson, who identifies as Filipino and black, said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2015\/09\/mixed-race-students-find-their-niche\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race students struggle to find their identity The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-09-28 Elizabeth Winston Many students seem to effortlessly fit into cultural groups at Penn [University of Pennsylvania], but for some, it\u2019s more complicated than simply choosing one. For mixed-race students, finding racial or cultural groups to identify with can be more of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[21235,10773,21234,21233,21232,10772],"class_list":["post-42971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-avery-stephenson","tag-daily-pennsylvanian","tag-deena-char","tag-elizabeth-winston","tag-emily-marucci","tag-the-daily-pennsylvanian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42971","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=42971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42972,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42971\/revisions\/42972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}