{"id":48905,"date":"2016-09-01T00:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T00:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48905"},"modified":"2016-09-19T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:07:49","slug":"local-author-dmae-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48905","title":{"rendered":"Local Author Dmae Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anotherreadthrough.com\/event\/local-author-dmae-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Local Author Dmae Roberts<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anotherreadthrough.com\" target=\"_blank\">Another Read Through<\/a><br \/>\n3932 N Mississippi Avenue<br \/>\nPortland, Oregon 97227<br \/>\n<strong>2016-09-01, 19:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dmaeroberts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dmae Roberts<\/a> will read from her book and give a preview of a larger conversation that will be coming soon with the <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonhumanities.org\/programs\/conversation-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Humanities Conversation Project<\/a>.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46915\" target=\"_blank\">The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>traces four decades of what it means to be a mixed-race adult who sometimes called herself \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=13644\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Asian Woman<\/a>.\u201d With her personal essays written over a ten-year period, Dmae Roberts journeys through biracial identity, Taiwan, sci-fi, and the trials of her interracial Taiwanese and Oklahoman family amid love, loss and letting go of past regrets and grief.\u00a0Roberts\u00a0has been chosen by <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonhumanities.org\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Humanities<\/a> to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonhumanities.org\/programs\/conversation-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conversation Project<\/a> leader with the topic:\u00a0What Are You? Mixed-Race and Interracial Families in Oregon\u2019s Past and Future.\u00a0This reading and conversation will draw on her personal experiences and historical research on the mixed-race experience\u00a0in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Dmae will give a preview of her Oregon Humanities Conversation Project topic and feature a reading from her book\u00a0<em>The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family\u00a0<\/em>with\u00a0an interractive talk:\u00a0\u201cWhat Are You?\u201d A Mixed-Race Reading &amp; Conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anotherreadthrough.com\/event\/local-author-dmae-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Author Dmae Roberts Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Avenue Portland, Oregon 97227 2016-09-01, 19:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Dmae Roberts will read from her book and give a preview of a larger conversation that will be coming soon with the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project.\u00a0The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family\u00a0traces four decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,13,8,20],"tags":[24898,1543,5509,24899,24900],"class_list":["post-48905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-another-read-through","tag-dmae-roberts","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-humanities","tag-oregon-humanities-conversation-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48905","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=48905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48906,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48905\/revisions\/48906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}