{"id":46922,"date":"2016-05-11T17:33:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46922"},"modified":"2016-05-11T17:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:33:39","slug":"46922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46922","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelowell.org\/2015\/11\/24\/its-not-black-or-white-reporter-struggles-with-mixed-race-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>It\u2019s not all black or white: reporter struggles with mixed-race identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelowell.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Lowell<\/a><br \/>\nLowell High School, San Francisco, California<br \/>\n2015-11-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachael Schmidt<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"402\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/thelowell.org\/2015\/11\/24\/its-not-black-or-white-reporter-struggles-with-mixed-race-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thelowell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rachelArticlePicv1.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Reporter Rachael Schmidt is half white and half black. Photo by Kiara Gil.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I arrived at my cousin Angela\u2019s fourteenth birthday party and was the first one there. Her mom is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysia\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysia<\/a> and her dad is German. I immediately gravitated towards her and for the rest of the evening, we exchanged gossip, played guitars and harmonized together.<\/p>\n<p>Once my father\u2019s side of the family began to arrive and attempted to interact with us, we retreated to her room. My cousin and I always laugh when we joke and scream, \u201cRun away!\u201d as we make our great escape. But I have always wondered why we feel so inclined to leave when our other relatives, who are mostly white, begin to show up.<\/p>\n<p>I used to figure it was because of our vast age differences in comparison to our other family members\u2019, but the more I thought about it after the party, the more I realized that I had grown uncomfortable with my father\u2019s family when I was nine years old and my parents divorced. After my mother, who is black, became absent from family gatherings, I felt even more out of place. I am half white and half black. When one side of my background is taken away, I do not feel complete&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thelowell.org\/2015\/11\/24\/its-not-black-or-white-reporter-struggles-with-mixed-race-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not all black or white: reporter struggles with mixed-race identity The Lowell Lowell High School, San Francisco, California 2015-11-24 Rachael Schmidt Reporter Rachael Schmidt is half white and half black. Photo by Kiara Gil. I arrived at my cousin Angela\u2019s fourteenth birthday party and was the first one there. Her mom is from Malaysia [&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":[23756,23757,23755],"class_list":["post-46922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lowell-high-school","tag-rachael-schmidt","tag-the-lowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922","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=46922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46923,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46922\/revisions\/46923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}