{"id":43768,"date":"2015-11-06T02:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43768"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:43:29","slug":"blending-shades-of-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43768","title":{"rendered":"Blending shades of self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/features.columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/11\/05\/blending-shades-of-self\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blending shades of self<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia Daily Spectator<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n2015-11-05<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Wallis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/11\/05\/blending-shades-of-self\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/wp-content\/themes\/wapo-blogs\/inc\/imrs.php?src=http:\/\/features.columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/11\/1._aLeadImage_2100x1198.jpg&amp;w=1200\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a place like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia<\/a>, where how you identify can define the spaces you occupy and the people you interact with, being of mixed race presents an extra challenge. The balancing act between multiple cultures, communities, and colors can leave one wondering where they belong. Last year, Keenan Smith, Columbia College sophomore, founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mrsscolumbia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed-Race Students Society<\/a>, which created a forum for multiracial students to discuss issues that directly affect those who don\u2019t fit in one box. The students profiled in this piece aren\u2019t all members of the Society, but they all represent an emerging community of students bringing these conversations into our discussions of race on campus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/features.columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/11\/05\/blending-shades-of-self\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a place like Columbia, where how you identify can define the spaces you occupy and the people you interact with, being of mixed race presents an extra challenge. The balancing act between multiple cultures, communities, and colors can leave one wondering where they belong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,13743,8,20],"tags":[21782,21779,1920,4415,20691,21781,21785,21784,21783,20690,21778,21780],"class_list":["post-43768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-breana-beaudreault","tag-caroline-wallis","tag-columbia-daily-spectator","tag-columbia-university","tag-eliana-pipes","tag-grace-nkem","tag-hebah-akram-khan","tag-isabella-heshmatpour","tag-julia-muhsen","tag-keenan-smith","tag-mixed-race-students-society-of-columbia-university-of-columbia-university","tag-rachel-roth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43768","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=43768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54368,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43768\/revisions\/54368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}