{"id":51919,"date":"2017-02-27T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51919"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:41:35","slug":"investigating-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51919","title":{"rendered":"Investigating identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigating identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Counseling Today: A Publication of the American Counseling Association<\/a>
\n2016-11-21<\/p>\n

Laurie Meyers<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Writer<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

That is a question commonly asked of individuals who are multiracial. As a society, we have gotten used to checking off a metaphorical \u2014 and often literal \u2014 \u201cbox\u201d when it comes to questions of race. We seem to expect everyone to \u201cjust pick one.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the population of the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, not just in terms of our nation\u2019s racial makeup, but also in the growing number of people who identify themselves as belonging to two, three or more racial groups…<\/p>\n

…Counselors who study multiracial issues and in some cases are multiracial themselves say that this finding of shifting racial identity is indicative of one of the core issues of being from multiple races \u2014 identity and belonging…<\/p>\n

…ACA member Derrick Paladino<\/a>, who is part Puerto Rican and part Italian American, grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood in Connecticut. When kids at school would question him about \u201cwhat\u201d he was, Paladino would simply say Italian because that seemed easier and perhaps safer.<\/p>\n

Paladino, who also helped to develop the Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population<\/a>, says he didn\u2019t have a lot of contact with the Puerto Rican side of his extended family when he grew up, so he didn\u2019t have much opportunity to explore the Latino part of his identity. When he ultimately decided to go to college at the University of Florida, Paladino says he was thrilled at the prospect of meeting other Latino students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got my Latino Students Association card, and I was so excited,\u201d Paladino recalls. \u201cBut I discovered that because I was not fluent or hadn\u2019t had [what was considered] the full Latino experience, I didn\u2019t fit in well.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

That is a question commonly asked of individuals who are multiracial. As a society, we have gotten used to checking off a metaphorical \u2014 and often literal \u2014 \u201cbox\u201d when it comes to questions of race. We seem to expect everyone to \u201cjust pick one.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the population of the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, not just in terms of our nation\u2019s racial makeup, but also in the growing number of people who identify themselves as belonging to two, three or more racial groups.<\/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":[1937,26288,26289,4499,1935,4498,26287,20172,3208],"class_list":["post-51919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-counseling-association","tag-c-peeper-macdonald","tag-catherine-chang","tag-counseling-today","tag-derrick-a-paladino","tag-derrick-paladino","tag-laurie-meyers","tag-leah-brew","tag-mark-kenney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51919","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=51919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51923,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51919\/revisions\/51923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}