{"id":44560,"date":"2015-12-10T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44560"},"modified":"2015-12-10T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:35:18","slug":"raising-mixed-race-seattle-author-shows-realities-facing-multiracial-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44560","title":{"rendered":"Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/2015\/12\/09\/raising-mixed-race-multiracial-children-book-sharon-h-chang-seattle\/45255\" target=\"_blank\">Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Seattle Globalist<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon H. Chang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race.<\/p>\n<p>Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race, racism, and mixedness. I realized I needed to move beyond reflecting just on self-identity, and start placing our family in critical conversation with a national global politic. What was our relationship as mixed race Asian peoples to a planet devastated by European colonialism and to our home, a colonized nation, devastated by four centuries of violent white racism?<\/p>\n<p><em>How would my son experience this world?<\/em> What would he learn about himself? And how would he grow to contribute to its transformation, or perpetuate its ongoing devastation?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/2015\/12\/09\/raising-mixed-race-multiracial-children-book-sharon-h-chang-seattle\/45255\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,125,8,20],"tags":[5409,13480,14613,16773,13479,2685],"class_list":["post-44560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-globalist","tag-sharon-chang","tag-sharon-h-chang","tag-the-seattle-globalist","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560","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=44560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44562,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560\/revisions\/44562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}