{"id":43785,"date":"2015-11-06T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43785"},"modified":"2015-11-06T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:53:53","slug":"its-really-hard-to-be-two-things-at-once-or-at-least-from-a-westernized-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43785","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s really hard to be two things at once, or at least from a Westernized perspective."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBeing mixed race and being American is really weird because Americans, and I say this as an American, they like to do this thing where they put literally everyone into a box. We see it on the Census, we see it in schools, standardized testing, anything you could possibly label, Americans like to label. Mixed race people will present this as a cognitive dissonance. It\u2019s really hard to be two things at once, or at least from a Westernized perspective. So when we want to check two things off it kind of becomes a little hard. So I think it\u2019s distinctly more difficult in America to be mixed race than it is in a lot of other places.\u201d \u2014Julia Muhsen, Columbia College sophomore<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Caroline Wallis, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43768\" target=\"_blank\">Blending shades of self<\/a>,\u201d <em>Columbia Daily Spectator<\/em>, November 5, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/features.columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/11\/05\/blending-shades-of-self\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/features.columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/11\/05\/blending-shades-of-self\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeing mixed race and being American is really weird because Americans, and I say this as an American, they like to do this thing where they put literally everyone into a box. We see it on the Census, we see it in schools, standardized testing, anything you could possibly label, Americans like to label. Mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21779,1920,21783],"class_list":["post-43785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-caroline-wallis","tag-columbia-daily-spectator","tag-julia-muhsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785","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=43785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43786,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43785\/revisions\/43786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}