{"id":4711,"date":"2010-01-24T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2010-05-05T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:57:08","slug":"what-are-you-for-multiracial-students-declaring-an-identity-can-be-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4711","title":{"rendered":"What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\/issues\/2010\/01\/13\/pages\/4093\/index.xml\" target=\"_blank\">What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\">Princeton Alumni Weekly<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Princeton University<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\/issues\/2010\/01\/13\">2010-01-13 Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maya Rock<\/strong> (Class of 2002)<\/p>\n<p>In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What\u2019s your background? Where are your parents from? <strong>And the strikingly \u00adexistential: What are you?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What the questioners really meant was, what race was I? The question said a lot to me about how important race was in America, even if direct discussion of the topic seemed reserved for special holidays or \u00adincendiary news stories. My answer was, \u201cI\u2019m half black and half white\u201d \u2014 a response that made me an anomaly. People were used to divvying one another up into five neat racial categories. After giving my response, I knew, white students would censor what they said about race in front of me, and black students would expect a certain solidarity. I often wished I did not respond at all; I didn\u2019t want to be a spokeswoman for an experience many considered fascinating but which was, for me, \u00adcompletely normal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\/issues\/2010\/01\/13\/pages\/4093\/index.xml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What\u2019s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly \u00adexistential: What are you?\u00a0\u00a0 What the questioners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,6,394,20],"tags":[1896,1895],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-maya-rock","tag-princeton-alumni-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","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=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}