{"id":47472,"date":"2016-06-09T18:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47472"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:07:18","slug":"fractionalized-stories-of-biracial-joy-pain-struggle-and-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47472","title":{"rendered":"Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Madison 365<\/a>
\nMadison, Wisconsin
\n2016-06-25<\/p>\n

Mia Sato<\/strong><\/a>, Senior
\nUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison<\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed.<\/p>\n

Multi.<\/p>\n

One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, \u201ctwo or more races.\u201d In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable reality for a small but growing population. We are confronted by it with questions like, \u201cWhat are you?\u201d which we can instantly recognize as a question pointing to heritage. Census forms or surveys ask us to check a box identifying our ethnicity; on rare occasions we\u2019re offered \u201cMultiracial\u201d but we frequently settle for \u201cOther.\u201d People identifying as mixed race may feel connected to all of their backgrounds, only one or some of them, or to none; race is complex enough as it is, but once two or more categories come into play, even more questions are raised.<\/p>\n

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What is clear is that people who carry a mixed race identity do not experience their race in the same way, even if they share the same racial mix. Location, social interaction, family attitudes about race and environments all inform how they think, feel and speak about being mixed race. Even more, an individual\u2019s own interpretation of their multicultural background may shift and change with time; it is a process of discovery, affirmation, questioning and rejection.<\/p>\n

Below, five individuals share their own journey of a mixed-race identity. No story is the same, but all lead to one reality that is obvious: they are hardly a fraction of a race. They are full, whole, complete, and here are their stories, in all their diverse glory…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-06-25 Mia Sato, Senior University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, \u201ctwo or more races.\u201d In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable reality for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8,20],"tags":[24029,18177],"class_list":["post-47472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-madison-365","tag-mia-sato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47472","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=47472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47473,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47472\/revisions\/47473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}