{"id":46857,"date":"2016-05-04T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46857"},"modified":"2016-05-04T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T17:52:49","slug":"coloring-outside-the-lines-with-interracial-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46857","title":{"rendered":"Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbindependent.org\/coloring-outside-the-lines-with-interracial-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbindependent.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Stony Brook Independent<\/a><br \/>\nStony Brook, New York<br \/>\n2016-05-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kayla Frazier<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would always ask my mother why she married daddy and not someone with better hair so my hair would be nice,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n<p>Price, 21, grew up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middletown,_Delaware_County,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown, New York<\/a>, a predominantly white town on the edge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catskill_Mountains\" target=\"_blank\">Catskill Mountains<\/a>. Though she had plenty of friends and experienced little or no harassment because of her multiracial background, she said she felt \u201ctoo black to be white and too white to be black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At college, that racial ambivalence has become more of a cultural question. Back home, she said, her high school friends see her as \u201ctoo artsy to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=hood\" target=\"_blank\">hood<\/a>\u201d while on campus, where she is switching her major from linguistics to a multidisciplinary blend including theater and music. She sometimes feels \u201ctoo hood to be artsy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that America has continuous lingering issues dealing with race. As millennials come of age, coloring outside the lines, so to speak, is a path waiting to be explored&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbindependent.org\/coloring-outside-the-lines-with-interracial-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage The Stony Brook Independent Stony Brook, New York 2016-05-02 Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on. \u201cI would always ask my mother why she married daddy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,8,20],"tags":[23716,23712,23717,23715,23714,23713],"class_list":["post-46857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-dwayne-moore","tag-kayla-frazier","tag-petra-dormand","tag-shage-price","tag-stony-brook-independent","tag-the-stony-brook-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46857","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=46857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46858,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46857\/revisions\/46858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}