{"id":50128,"date":"2016-11-23T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50128"},"modified":"2016-11-23T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:39:36","slug":"two-halves-one-american-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50128","title":{"rendered":"Two halves, one American whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/opinion\/2016\/11\/16\/two-halves-one-american-whole\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Two halves, one American whole<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Columbia Spectator<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luciana Siracusano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Halfie. That\u2019s the endearing term I use to explain my ethnic and cultural heritage when people don\u2019t know what to make of my facial features. My father is a third-generation Italian-Irish-American, and my mother is Korean and immigrated here in her 20s, so I\u2019m half-Korean and half-Italian-American. While some people can tell right away, others have no idea\u2014they think I\u2019m either completely white or completely Asian, or they\u2019ll ask. Their guesses about my heritage fall all over the ethnic, racial, and geographic map\u2014which is to be expected, I suppose, when you\u2019re the product of diverse genes.<\/p>\n<p>Being half has put the quest for self-discovery and definition at the forefront of my life. People\u2019s efforts to categorize me can be frustrating, since I have difficulty categorizing myself. It often involves sifting through labels and historical and political rhetoric that confuse my sense of identity. But ultimately, my mixed heritage has shaped how I define not only myself, but also what it means to be American.<\/p>\n<p>People tell me, \u201cYou could never pass as an American,\u201d or \u201cYou\u2019re not really Korean.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/opinion\/2016\/11\/16\/two-halves-one-american-whole\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two halves, one American whole The Columbia Spectator 2016-11-16 Luciana Siracusano Halfie. That\u2019s the endearing term I use to explain my ethnic and cultural heritage when people don\u2019t know what to make of my facial features. My father is a third-generation Italian-Irish-American, and my mother is Korean and immigrated here in her 20s, so I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[21901,25482,21900],"class_list":["post-50128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-columbia-spectator","tag-luciana-siracusano","tag-the-columbia-spectator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128","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=50128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50129,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128\/revisions\/50129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}