{"id":51078,"date":"2017-01-08T02:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T02:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51078"},"modified":"2017-01-08T02:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T02:23:37","slug":"mixing-it-up-students-professors-reflect-on-the-definition-of-mixed-race-in-modern-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51078","title":{"rendered":"Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hilite.org\/49111\/topstory-2\/mixing-it-up-students-professors-reflect-on-the-definition-of-mixed-race-in-modern-society\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hilite.org\" target=\"_blank\">HiLite: Your Source For CHS News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccs.k12.in.us\/chs\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison Li<\/strong>, Calendar\/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania_Dutch\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvanian Dutch<\/a> and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define a person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like (how you define yourself) should be based off of personal attributes in general,\u201d Koniaris said. \u201cBecause if you start defining everyone by race, then at a certain point, it becomes this idea that we separate ourselves based on race, and I think history has shown us that that\u2019s not the best idea. But with that being said, sometimes you want to say, \u2018I\u2019m different from everyone else because this is how my culture worked out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while Koniaris said race shouldn\u2019t define people, the very recognition of people of mixed races is still relatively new in this country. In the 1967 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em> case<\/a>, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down previous laws prohibiting interracial marriage. In 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau first allowed people to identify themselves. With those statistics in mind, in the just last 50 years, the population of people of mixed races has increased exponentially. According to a 2015 Pew Research study, between 2000 and 2010, the number of white and black biracial Americans has more than doubled, while people of white and Asian backgrounds have increased by 87 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This inclusion of mixed races has led to societal changes, as well as some discomfort form those who discuss those changes. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/polisci.indiana.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/mh34.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Hayes<\/a>, assistant professor of political science at IU, when identifying people of mixed race, there has been a general accompaniment of \u2018politically correct\u2019 terminologies. That language comes both from those who are not of mixed backgrounds, as well as from those who are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/hilite.org\/49111\/topstory-2\/mixing-it-up-students-professors-reflect-on-the-definition-of-mixed-race-in-modern-society\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society HiLite: Your Source For CHS News Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana 2016-12-12 Allison Li, Calendar\/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, Pennsylvanian Dutch and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,33,125,8,20],"tags":[25930,25934,25933,25932,25931,5456,25929,25936,25935],"class_list":["post-51078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-allison-li","tag-carmel","tag-carmel-high-school","tag-hilite","tag-hilite-your-source-for-chs-news","tag-indiana","tag-kiki-koniaris","tag-michael-otoole","tag-noah-huber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078","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=51078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51079,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078\/revisions\/51079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}