{"id":48956,"date":"2016-09-04T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48956"},"modified":"2016-09-04T00:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:48:49","slug":"audiology-freshman-talks-finding-cultural-identity-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48956","title":{"rendered":"Audiology freshman talks finding cultural identity on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audiology freshman talks finding cultural identity on campus<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900<\/a>
\n2016-08-31<\/p>\n

Henry Youtt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAudiology<\/a> freshman Karis Paul is the daughter of an Indian father and a half-Irish, half-Austrian mother. Mixed-race students make up only 3 percent of the students on campus.
\nPhoto Credit: Juan Figueroa<\/a> | Daily Texan Staff<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cWhat race are you?\u201d the questionnaire reads above a set of yet unmarked boxes.<\/p>\n

White. Black. Hispanic.<\/p>\n

For many people, this requires just another stroke of the pen, but for audiology freshman Karis Paul, there\u2019s a little more to it than that.<\/p>\n

Growing up in El Paso<\/a> \u2014 where the population is approximately 80 percent Hispanic \u2014 Karis, the daughter of an Indian father and a half-Irish, half-Austrian mother, found acceptance in a town that exudes racial diversity. However, Karis was seen as white, leaving her uncertain of her identity in a nation that didn\u2019t allow people to check multiple boxes in the census\u2019 race category until 2000.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy situation was nothing that I was very aware of until I got a little older,\u201d Karis said. \u201cI would tell people I\u2019m Indian, and they\u2019d be like, \u2018What? Are you serious? Show me a picture of your dad.\u2019 They would say, \u2018You\u2019re so not Indian.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Only about 3 percent of students on campus identify as mixed race. Karis said this underrepresentation often leads to misunderstandings in conversations about racial identity or, in her case, a sheer lack of such conversations…<\/p>\n

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

Audiology freshman talks finding cultural identity on campus The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 2016-08-31 Henry Youtt Audiology freshman Karis Paul is the daughter of an Indian father and a half-Irish, half-Austrian mother. Mixed-race students make up only 3 percent of the students on campus. Photo Credit: Juan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,1249,20],"tags":[24922,24924,24923,5928,5752],"class_list":["post-48956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-texas","category-usa","tag-daily-texan","tag-henry-youtt","tag-karis-paul","tag-the-daily-texan","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48956","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=48956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48957,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48956\/revisions\/48957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}