{"id":43640,"date":"2015-11-01T00:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T00:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43640"},"modified":"2015-11-01T00:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T00:54:50","slug":"guest-commentary-student-searches-for-identity-outside-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43640","title":{"rendered":"Guest Commentary: Student searches for identity outside of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.theithacan.org\/30321\" target=\"_blank\">Guest Commentary: Student searches for identity outside of race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theithacan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ithacan: Serving the Ithaca College community since 1931.<\/a><br \/>\nIthaca, New York<br \/>\n2013-02-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekxman\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Crossman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.theithacan.org\/30321\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3y5c0j4725fi4e0l0y2mazojgt5.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/enviro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Senior Derek Crossman struggled to identify as a person of color living in a predominately white community. He argues that as the multiracial population grows, racial constructs should end. \u00a0Shawn Steiner\/<em>The Ithacan<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I learned I was different from my friends in gym class in 7th grade. My classmates joked that I was brown and called me a \u201cnigger\u201d and a \u201cbeaner.\u201d It was the first time race ever became a factor in my life, and from then on I\u2019ve been hyper-aware of my skin color.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, I\u2019m a mix between my Caucasian mother and black father. It becomes complicated when ethnicity is involved. My father was born in Panama and moved to the U.S. in his teens, and my mother was born in the U.S. and is a mix of several European nationalities. That\u2019s a great deal to consider for the curious person who asks about my heritage \u2014 I\u2019m not easily categorized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.theithacan.org\/30321\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Commentary: Student searches for identity outside of race The Ithacan: Serving the Ithaca College community since 1931. Ithaca, New York 2013-02-20 Derek Crossman Senior Derek Crossman struggled to identify as a person of color living in a predominately white community. He argues that as the multiracial population grows, racial constructs should end. \u00a0Shawn Steiner\/The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[21725,21724,21723],"class_list":["post-43640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-derek-crossman","tag-the-ithacan","tag-the-ithacan-serving-the-ithaca-college-community-since-1931"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43640","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=43640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43641,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43640\/revisions\/43641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}