{"id":46610,"date":"2016-04-15T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46610"},"modified":"2016-04-15T01:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:31:32","slug":"race-isnt-just-black-or-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46610","title":{"rendered":"Race isn\u2019t just black or white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upbeacon.com\/2016\/04\/13\/race-isnt-just-black-or-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race isn\u2019t just black or white<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upbeacon.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Beacon: The Student Voice of the University of Portland Since 1935<\/a><br \/>\nPortland, Oregon<br \/>\n2016-04-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/r_markillie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rebekah Markillie<\/strong><\/a>, Design Editor<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t have been more than seven or eight years old, on the way to the park with my dad, when a neighborhood kid asked me if I was adopted. That was the first time someone had brought to my attention the disparity between my complexion and the one of my so-called biological father\u2019s. Another time more recently, when my mother tried introducing me as her daughter to another woman, she paused for a moment, looked at me and laughed, \u201cYou\u2019re not her daughter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We hear it all the time that race can\u2019t be divided into nice boxes to check. But this is rarely the reality. In many well-meaning discussions about racial inclusion and racial diversity, mixed race identities are completely left out. I\u2019ve been told countless times that I can\u2019t talk about racial discrimination, or Asian racial issues, because I\u2019m not brown or Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upbeacon.com\/2016\/04\/13\/race-isnt-just-black-or-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race isn\u2019t just black or white The Beacon: The Student Voice of the University of Portland Since 1935 Portland, Oregon 2016-04-13 Rebekah Markillie, Design Editor I couldn\u2019t have been more than seven or eight years old, on the way to the park with my dad, when a neighborhood kid asked me if I was adopted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[23556,23554,23555],"class_list":["post-46610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-rebekah-markillie","tag-the-beacon","tag-university-of-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46610","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=46610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46612,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46610\/revisions\/46612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}