{"id":43561,"date":"2015-10-28T23:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43561"},"modified":"2015-10-28T23:57:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:57:40","slug":"panel-talks-multiracial-identity-in-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43561","title":{"rendered":"Panel talks multiracial identity in academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/section\/news\/faculty-panel\" target=\"_blank\">Panel talks multiracial identity in academics<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Michigan Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexa St John<\/strong>, Daily Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2015 Pew Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2015\/06\/11\/multiracial-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University\u2019s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students <a href=\"http:\/\/ro.umich.edu\/enrollment\/ethnicity.php\" target=\"_blank\">identified<\/a> as two or more races.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of University faculty met Monday night to discuss how multiracialism influences academic work for the first of their yearlong series dedicated to discussing the multiracial experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were really hoping to create a sense of community,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/users\/kdown\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Downing<\/a>, the University Library\u2019s head of social sciences and the education liaison librarian. \u201cThis is a population that is often hidden because we don\u2019t walk around with signs on us saying we\u2019re multiracial. It\u2019s hard to connect sometimes with other multiracial people.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/section\/news\/faculty-panel\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel talks multiracial identity in academics The Michigan Daily 2015-10-27 Alexa St John, Daily Staff Reporter According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University\u2019s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students identified as two or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2895,8,20],"tags":[21682,17074,1040,21648,17140,16971,17014,17013,5157],"class_list":["post-43561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alexa-st-john","tag-edward-west","tag-karen-downing","tag-mark-kamimura-jimenez","tag-martha-jones","tag-martha-s-jones","tag-michigan-daily","tag-the-michigan-daily","tag-university-of-michgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43561","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=43561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43562,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43561\/revisions\/43562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}