{"id":47963,"date":"2016-06-26T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47963"},"modified":"2016-06-26T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:18:38","slug":"mixed-race-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47963","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed-race in Oregon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Asian Reporter<\/a>
\nPortland, Oregon
\nVolume 26, Number 12<\/a> (2016-06-20)
\nISSN: 1094-9453
\npage 6, columns 2-3<\/p>\n

Dmae Roberts<\/strong><\/a>, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist<\/p>\n

I received some exciting news this month. I was selected as one of the speakers for the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project<\/a>, a program that brings people together to talk about current issues and ideas.<\/p>\n

Participating in the program wasn\u2019t something I was eager to do at first, since I\u2019ve always seen myself as a bit shy. Although as an actor I\u2019ve performed Shakespeare<\/a> on Portland<\/a> stages, typically I\u2019m more of a wallflower. As I\u2019ve gotten older, however, I found it wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t like talking to people. Instead, I realized I only enjoy talking when there\u2019s an intriguing subject.<\/p>\n

During the past decade, I\u2019ve gravitated toward discussing the meaning of my mixed-race identity. While growing up in rural Oregon<\/a>, there were few people of color. In my small school in the 1970s, I suspected I had mixed-race classmates, but it was a taboo subject, so it was not talked about. Students who could not pass as white, like my younger brother, endured racism. I, on the other hand, who appeared white to others, felt like a secret Asian girl<\/a>. In my 40-plus years of adulthood, I\u2019ve experienced shifts in the understanding of and attitude around multiracial identity and also witnessed the transformation in terminology for race and ethnicity from derogatory slurs to an expanding list of proud names…<\/p>\n

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

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