{"id":44644,"date":"2015-12-20T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44644"},"modified":"2015-12-20T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:02:22","slug":"new-york-times-just-boarded-the-post-racial-express-a-critical-response-to-choose-your-own-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44644","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to &#8220;Choose Your Own Identity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/new-york-times-just-boarded-post-racial.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to &#8220;Choose Your Own Identity&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Asian Families<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon H. Chang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/new-york-times-just-boarded-post-racial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-04ncojqxGZs\/VnF8tvWJwsI\/AAAAAAAACvI\/rUsM8NIdxT0\/s640\/NYTimes_ChooseYourID.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>screen shot from NY Times Magazine<\/small><\/p>\n<p>This Monday, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/magazine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times Magazine<\/a><\/em> published a very unfortunate essay about multiracial Asian children: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44602\" target=\"_blank\">Choose Your Own Identity<\/a>, by author and mother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonnietsui.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie Tsui<\/a>. In it, Tsui (who is not multiracial herself) puzzles over her children&#8217;s mixed-race identities, what they may or may not choose to be one day, while taking a brief foray back\/forward in time to consider the sociohistorical context of mixed-race and America&#8217;s impending multiracial future. After mulling on the subject for about ten paragraphs, she concludes with a seeming liberatory message on behalf of her children: &#8220;&#8230;the truth is, I can&#8217;t tell my sons what to feel&#8230;I can only tell them what I think about my own identity and listen hard to what they have to tell me in turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sounds innocent enough, yes?<\/p>\n<p>No&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/multiasianfamilies.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/new-york-times-just-boarded-post-racial.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to &#8220;Choose Your Own Identity&#8221; Multiracial Asian Families 2015-12-16 Sharon H. Chang screen shot from NY Times Magazine This Monday, The New York Times Magazine published a very unfortunate essay about multiracial Asian children: Choose Your Own Identity, by author and mother Bonnie Tsui. 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