{"id":50789,"date":"2016-12-18T23:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50789"},"modified":"2016-12-18T23:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:31:24","slug":"even-today-being-biracial-in-america-is-not-always-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50789","title":{"rendered":"Even today, being biracial in America is not always easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/20161217\/even_today_being_biracial_in_america_is_not_always_easy\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Even today, being biracial in America is not always easy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Observer-Reporter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/section\/NEWS01\" target=\"_blank\">Washington County News<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Washington, Pennsylvania<\/em><br \/>\n2016-12-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karen_mansfield\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Karen Mansfield<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/20161217\/even_today_being_biracial_in_america_is_not_always_easy\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/storyimage\/OR\/20161217\/NEWS01\/161219574\/AR\/0\/AR-161219574.jpg&amp;MaxW=3000&amp;MaxH=2310\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Celeste Van Kirk\/Observer-Reporter<br \/>\nDontae Monday, a student at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_%26_Jefferson_College\" target=\"_blank\">Washington &amp; Jefferson College<\/a>, stands in front of Old Main recently.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Koron Harris is used to strangers sneaking glances at her, and she knows why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re trying to figure out if I\u2019m black or I\u2019m white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of a black father and white mother, Harris has encountered curiosity and fascination about her biracial heritage since she was in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really think about it at this point, but everybody else does. I\u2019ve had people ask me whether I think I\u2019m black or I\u2019m white, and I honestly don\u2019t see it that way,\u201d said Harris, 19, of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a>. \u201cI just think of me as being Koron.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/20161217\/even_today_being_biracial_in_america_is_not_always_easy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even today, being biracial in America is not always easy Observer-Reporter Washington County News Washington, Pennsylvania 2016-12-17 Karen Mansfield, Staff Writer Celeste Van Kirk\/Observer-Reporter Dontae Monday, a student at Washington &amp; Jefferson College, stands in front of Old Main recently. Koron Harris is used to strangers sneaking glances at her, and she knows why. \u201cThey\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[25796,25797,25798,25795,4889],"class_list":["post-50789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-dontae-monday","tag-karen-mansfield","tag-koron-harris","tag-observer-reporter","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789","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=50789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50790,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions\/50790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}