{"id":50110,"date":"2016-11-22T01:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50110"},"modified":"2016-11-22T01:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:28:50","slug":"please-select-one-growing-up-with-a-multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50110","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlease select one\u201d: Growing up with a multiracial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPlease select one\u201d: Growing up with a multiracial identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Seattle Globalist<\/a>
\n2016-11-31<\/p>\n

Jaya Duckworth<\/strong><\/a>, Senior
\nGarfield High School, Seattle, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJaya Duckworth<\/a> (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump<\/a>. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Race: Please select one\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an instruction mixed-race people are all too familiar with. These days, surveys have become more nuanced, and usually read \u201cselect all that apply.\u201d But growing up, I faced dozens of surveys, questionnaires, and tests that all made me choose one race.<\/p>\n

As a half-white, half-Nepali child, I never knew what to select. Do I select white because I act like white kids and talk like white kids, go to school with white kids and have been raised like a white kid? Or do I select Asian because I look brown, because I eat curry, because on Christmas morning I always had to wait until puja<\/em><\/a> was over at my Nepali grandparents\u2019 house before I could open presents? White kids don\u2019t do that, do they?<\/p>\n

I usually ended up choosing \u201cOther,\u201d as if instead of being human, I was a stray dog; some lost object or animal that no one could categorize. Sometimes surveys also listed \u201cmultiracial,\u201d which didn\u2019t sit well with me either. The label feels like a message: here, these are the important races, and anyone who doesn\u2019t fit these categories can be lumped together under the \u201cmutt\u201d category…<\/p>\n

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

\u201cPlease select one\u201d: Growing up with a multiracial identity The Seattle Globalist 2016-11-31 Jaya Duckworth, Senior Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington Jaya Duckworth (second from right) and friends hold signs showing pride in multiracial identities at a school district-wide walkout in protest of the election of Donald Trump. (Photo courtesy Jaya Duckworth.) Race: Please select […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[25478,5409,13480,13479,2685],"class_list":["post-50110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jaya-duckworth","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-globalist","tag-the-seattle-globalist","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110","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=50110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50111,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110\/revisions\/50111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}