{"id":44261,"date":"2015-11-27T02:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44261"},"modified":"2015-11-27T02:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T02:42:56","slug":"diversity-and-multiracial-voices%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44261","title":{"rendered":"Diversity and Multiracial Voices\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhradix.org\/on-campus-1\/2015\/11\/10\/diversity-and-multiracial-voices\" target=\"_blank\">Diversity and Multiracial Voices<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhradix.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Holyoke Radix<\/a><br \/>\nSouth Hadley, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2015-11-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sonia-mohammadzadah-69b0a8b1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sonia Mohammadzadah &#8217;18<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>***Please note: my use of the term \u201ccultural org\u201d includes both cultural orgs associated with cultural houses and those that are not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As someone who identifies as biracial, I\u2019m never quite sure where I stand or what my role is in the discussion of race. I am half-White, and have thus benefited from certain privileges awarded to white people. However, I am also half-Afghan, and have consequently faced discrimination typically inflicted upon those of a Middle Eastern background, though I am an American-born citizen. When I try and contribute to conversations on race from both a White and non-White perspective, I often feel (and have been told) that I am \u201cplaying both sides\u201d on a field that has been clearly divided into two distinct teams. While some may argue my position as a biracial person offers valuable insight in racial dialogue, I\u2019ve noticed that a multiracial, multicultural point of view is not often sought. It is assumed that you are either White, or you are not White. Where is the space for individuals who are both?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhradix.org\/on-campus-1\/2015\/11\/10\/diversity-and-multiracial-voices\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity and Multiracial Voices Mount Holyoke Radix South Hadley, Massachusetts 2015-11-10 Sonia Mohammadzadah &#8217;18, Contributing Writer ***Please note: my use of the term \u201ccultural org\u201d includes both cultural orgs associated with cultural houses and those that are not. As someone who identifies as biracial, I\u2019m never quite sure where I stand or what my role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,8,20],"tags":[22059,22058,22057],"class_list":["post-44261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-mount-holyoke-college","tag-mount-holyoke-radix","tag-sonia-mohammadzadah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44261","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=44261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44262,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44261\/revisions\/44262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}