{"id":51882,"date":"2017-02-26T21:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T21:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51882"},"modified":"2017-02-26T21:27:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T21:27:05","slug":"student-reflects-on-mixed-race-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51882","title":{"rendered":"Student reflects on mixed-race background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesdelphic.com\/2017\/02\/22\/student-reflects-on-mixed-race-background\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Student reflects on mixed-race background<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesdelphic.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Times-Delphic<\/a><br \/>\nDes Moines, Iowa<br \/>\n2017-02-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jessica.spangler@drake.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jessica Spangler<\/strong><\/a>, Opinions Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesdelphic.com\/2017\/02\/22\/student-reflects-on-mixed-race-background\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timesdelphic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FullSizeRender-1-770x1018.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As someone who comes from a blend of different cultures, it can sometimes seem like there isn\u2019t really anywhere I belong. There are no neat boxes that I fit into.<\/p>\n<p>I love that I am able to have a unique perspective and have the opportunity to grow up knowing different cultures. I\u2019m proud of who I am and where my family is from. I am Cuban, Mexican and white and I will always consider myself lucky that I am able to have the experiences I do.<\/p>\n<p>But there is also a lot of frustration that comes along with being mixed race.<\/p>\n<p>People have dismissed my Latina side completely (\u201cPlease, you\u2019re just white.\u201d) and people have called me racial slurs or have said racist jokes to me (\u201cWant to mow my lawn?\u201d)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/timesdelphic.com\/2017\/02\/22\/student-reflects-on-mixed-race-background\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who comes from a blend of different cultures, it can sometimes seem like there isn\u2019t really anywhere I belong. There are no neat boxes that I fit into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,14646,8,20],"tags":[26271,26272,26270],"class_list":["post-51882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jessica-spangler","tag-jessie-spangler","tag-the-times-delphic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51882","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=51882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51883,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51882\/revisions\/51883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}