{"id":49323,"date":"2016-10-05T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49323"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:05:52","slug":"so-what-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49323","title":{"rendered":"“So, What Are You?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“So, What Are You?”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Columbia Daily Spectator<\/a>
\nNew York, New York
\n2016-10-04<\/p>\n

Alexandra Peebles<\/strong> and Eliza Solomon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMembers of the Mixed Heritage Society at a club meeting. (Jared Orellana \/ Staff Photographer)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, personally, thinking of myself as defined by race has never really worked, because I don\u2019t fit in with the Asians, [and] I don\u2019t fit in with white people,\u201d Zina Sockwell, a Columbia College senior, explains when asked about her identity as a mixed-heritage student.<\/p>\n

Sockwell is half Korean on her mother\u2019s side and a quarter Native American on her father\u2019s side, and she identifies as mixed heritage. Her entire \u201cnuclear family\u201d is Asian, white, and Native American. Growing up, Sockwell did not feel different or perplexed by her mixed background. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize for a long time that I was mixed race\u2014I was just a person, in a family. I was a Sockwell; that\u2019s what was normal,\u201d she says matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n

But when Sockwell got to college, things were different. When the Mixed Heritage Society (previously known as the Mixed-Race Students Society) debuted on campus in the spring of 2015<\/a>, it filled what some saw as a glaring cavity by providing an identity-based discussion space for students like Sockwell. These students don\u2019t identify strictly with one race or ethnicity, and as a result must combat the pressure to define themselves as belonging to one specific culture. The club set out to meet a need for the students who wanted to share their often unique experiences with their fellow \u201cmixed\u201d classmates…<\/p>\n

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

“So, What Are You?” Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York 2016-10-04 Alexandra Peebles and Eliza Solomon Members of the Mixed Heritage Society at a club meeting. (Jared Orellana \/ Staff Photographer) \u201cFor me, personally, thinking of myself as defined by race has never really worked, because I don\u2019t fit in with the Asians, [and] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[25144,1920,4415,25143,19293,20690,20692,25145],"class_list":["post-49323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alexandra-peebles","tag-columbia-daily-spectator","tag-columbia-university","tag-eliza-solomon","tag-karl-jacoby","tag-keenan-smith","tag-rachel-chin","tag-zina-sockwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49323","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=49323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49324,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49323\/revisions\/49324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}