{"id":48757,"date":"2016-08-21T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48757"},"modified":"2016-08-21T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T21:22:48","slug":"the-face-of-change-census-racial-categories-arent-so-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48757","title":{"rendered":"The face of change: Census racial categories aren\u2019t so black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2016\/census-and-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The face of change: Census racial categories aren\u2019t so black and white<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Dallas Morning News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jillcowan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jill Cowan<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2016\/census-and-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2016\/census-and-mixed-race\/images\/mixedLede-1800.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Gloria Fortner, 13, says she values all of the influences of her parentage. Her father, Bruce Fortner, is a black pastor, and her mother, Florencia Velasco Fortner, is a Mexican immigrant who heads a nonprofit. (Ting Shen\/The Dallas Morning News)<br \/>\n<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When Gloria Fortner was a little girl, a classmate of black and white parentage claimed to be a \u201cbetter mix\u201d than her. It was a jarring experience \u2014 one that has stayed lodged in her mind over the years.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Gloria, the daughter of a black pastor and a Mexican immigrant who heads a nonprofit, said she\u2019s forgiven if not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d the lanky violinist said on a recent afternoon. \u201cWe follow each other on Instagram now, so it\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gloria is 13&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2016\/census-and-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The face of change: Census racial categories aren\u2019t so black and white The Dallas Morning News 2016-08-19 Jill Cowan, Staff Writer Gloria Fortner, 13, says she values all of the influences of her parentage. Her father, Bruce Fortner, is a black pastor, and her mother, Florencia Velasco Fortner, is a Mexican immigrant who heads a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[24809,11761,24808,24807,24810,11760],"class_list":["post-48757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bruce-fortner","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-florencia-velasco-fortner","tag-gloria-fortner","tag-jill-cowan","tag-the-dallas-morning-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48757","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=48757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48758,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48757\/revisions\/48758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}