{"id":49276,"date":"2016-09-30T19:57:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49276"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:57:32","slug":"a-space-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49276","title":{"rendered":"A space of their own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yaledailynews.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/a-space-of-their-own\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A space of their own?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yaledailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yale News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-09-21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:noah.kim@yale.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Noah Kim<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>Multiracial students at Yale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Haleigh Larson \u201918 spent her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Dakota\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakotan<\/a> childhood in a community she characterizes as \u201calmost completely Scandinavian.\u201d She and her two siblings, the adopted children of white parents, are some of the few residents of color in the entire town.<\/p>\n<p>When she came to Yale in the fall of 2014, Larson was, like all other students of color, assigned a peer liaison and invited to attend events at one of the campus\u2019s cultural houses \u2014 in her case, the Afro-American Cultural Center. Never having socialized regularly with people of a similar racial background, Larson was initially eager to explore an aspect of her identity with which she was unfamiliar. But she found it difficult to fully engage with many of the other students and began to feel as if she were not a member of the African-American community at Yale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the students there had come to the Af-Am House looking for a space to engage with others who had been raised in similar environments, while I came there trying to learn more about a side of my identity I wasn\u2019t as immersed in,\u201d Larson said. \u201cAs a result, there was a huge barrier between me and many of the other students. Besides the occasional email, I certainly didn\u2019t feel like a member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Larson acknowledges the importance of Yale\u2019s cultural houses for many students of color, she was disappointed with her experience trying to explore her identity within the campus\u2019s existing cultural spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Nelson \u201918, a half-black, half-white student \u201ctangibly involved but not extremely active\u201d in the Af-Am House, experienced similar feelings of alienation upon visiting the center during her freshman year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/yaledailynews.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/a-space-of-their-own\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A space of their own? Yale News 2016-09-21 Noah Kim, Staff Reporter Multiracial students at Yale Haleigh Larson \u201918 spent her North Dakotan childhood in a community she characterizes as \u201calmost completely Scandinavian.\u201d She and her two siblings, the adopted children of white parents, are some of the few residents of color in the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[22882,25088,25086,25090,25087,25091,25085,25089,25092,13736,7672],"class_list":["post-49276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chandler-gregoire","tag-diego-espitia","tag-haleigh-larson","tag-jared-fellows","tag-jessica-nelson","tag-madison-masters","tag-noah-kim","tag-patrick-peoples","tag-tony-scott","tag-yale-news","tag-yale-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49276","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=49276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49277,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49276\/revisions\/49277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}