{"id":44840,"date":"2015-12-28T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44840"},"modified":"2015-12-28T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T01:56:13","slug":"when-you-grow-up-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44840","title":{"rendered":"When You Grow Up Mixed Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/evicka-chang\/2015\/12\/when-you-grow-up-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">When You Grow Up Mixed Race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Thought Catalog<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/evicka-chang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evicka Chang<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn\u2019t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started to realize that much of my own experience was not unusual for those of us who exist in the in-between.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest struggle is exactly that: not fitting into either space. With a White mother and a Chinese father, neither will ever understand my experience. My mother sees me as White; never will she understand the struggles I have and will continue to face as a non-White female. My father sees me as Chinese, only with the benefit of being able to \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a>\u2019 when needed. My Chinese extended family only knows me as the White member of the family, the Westerner who is not quite Chinese. My White extended family continuously \u2018others\u2019 me, pushing me back into the margins because I do not look like them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/evicka-chang\/2015\/12\/when-you-grow-up-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When You Grow Up Mixed Race Thought Catalog 2015-12-11 Evicka Chang Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn\u2019t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8],"tags":[22444,18132],"class_list":["post-44840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","tag-evicka-chang","tag-thought-catalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44840","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=44840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44841,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44840\/revisions\/44841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}