{"id":5094,"date":"2010-02-07T22:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T22:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:35:19","slug":"watson-program-will-allow-reid-to-study-issues-multi-racial-people-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5094","title":{"rendered":"Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.davidson.edu\/cms\/x23717.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.davidson.edu\">Davidson University<\/a><br \/>\nDavidson, North Carolina<br \/>\n2007-04-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Andoga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went abroad to Strasbourg, France, I remember meeting everybody in my program on the plane, and this one girl said to me, \u2018So, can we just get this out of the way\u2014what are you?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAmy Reid, a senior biology major and dance team captain, has heard such questions about her ethnicity for years. Her light skin and curly black hair defy pigeon-holing her as white, black, Latino or somewhere in between. Realizing that she\u2019s not alone in ethnic no-man\u2019s land, she wrote a successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.davidson.edu\/cms\/x10058.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Watson Foundation<\/a> proposal that will allow her to spend the coming year exploring the concept of ethnic identity in Brazil and Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Reid\u2019s project seeks to compare and contrast multi-racial identity development within specific communities. She chose to visit Brazil and Namibia for their unique cultural heritages. \u201cFor a long time, people believed that there was no racism in Brazil since there is such extensive interracial mixing between the native groups, descendants of African slaves, and the Portuguese,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s no longer the popular belief.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.davidson.edu\/cms\/x23717.xml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watson [Program] Will Allow Reid to Study Issues Multi-Racial People Face Davidson University Davidson, North Carolina 2007-04-02 Rachel Andoga \u201cWhen I went abroad to Strasbourg, France, I remember meeting everybody in my program on the plane, and this one girl said to me, \u2018So, can we just get this out of the way\u2014what are you?\u2019\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,125,8,20,25],"tags":[2063,2064,2061,2062],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-amy-reid","tag-davidson-university","tag-namibia","tag-rachel-andoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","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=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}