{"id":49533,"date":"2016-10-19T20:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49533"},"modified":"2016-10-19T20:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:46:38","slug":"mixed-race-and-mixed-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49533","title":{"rendered":"Mixed race and mixed reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/opinion\/2016\/10\/17\/mixed-race-and-mixed-reactions\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mixed race and mixed reactions<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia Daily Spectator<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Salgado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, like, what are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a question I\u2019m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morningside_Heights%2C_Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">Morningside Heights<\/a>. You\u2019d think that after almost two decades on this planet I\u2019d finally be able to answer it easily, but you\u2019d be wrong. This seemingly innocent query still manages to fill me with dread, discomfort, and anxiety every time I hear it. My heart leaps into my throat, my hands start to sweat, and my words get caught on the tip of my tongue.<\/p>\n<p>I know how most people want me to answer. They expect to hear something simple and comprehensible, like \u201cHispanic\u201d or \u201cwhite.\u201d They want to know which box to put me in. Their world is one of simple distinctions, one where everyone fits into only one category&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/opinion\/2016\/10\/17\/mixed-race-and-mixed-reactions\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed race and mixed reactions Columbia Daily Spectator 2016-10-17 Laura Salgado \u201cBut, like, what are you?\u201d It\u2019s a question I\u2019m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of Morningside Heights. You\u2019d think that after almost two decades on this planet I\u2019d finally be able to answer it easily, but you\u2019d be wrong. This seemingly innocent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,8,20],"tags":[1920,25261],"class_list":["post-49533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-columbia-daily-spectator","tag-laura-salgado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49533","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=49533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49534,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49533\/revisions\/49534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}