{"id":52009,"date":"2017-03-02T03:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T03:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52009"},"modified":"2017-03-02T03:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T03:21:59","slug":"mixed-race-conference-reflects-on-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52009","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Conference reflects on identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed Race Conference reflects on identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Trojan<\/a>
\nLos Angeles, California
\n2017-02-26<\/p>\n

Erum Jaffrey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJulia Erickson | Daily Trojan<\/em>
\nRoundtable \u00b7 Panelists spoke with Maria Root<\/a> (second from left) to discuss her 25 years of experience in multiracial studies at the fourth annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a>. The event was hosted by the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When Rudy Guevarra Jr.<\/a> filled out identification forms in elementary school, he remembers never checking the provided boxes for race. Instead, he drew his own box, and wrote \u201cMexican-Filipino,\u201d unable to choose one parent\u2019s culture over the other.<\/p>\n

Guevarra delivered the keynote address for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a> on Sunday, a speech titled \u201cBorderlands of Multiplicity: Reflections on Intimacies and Fluidity in Critical Mixed Race Studies\u201d. The three-day conference held at USC featured a series of workshops, lectures, panels, movie-screenings and concerts on the topic of \u201cTrans,\u201d coinciding with the Hapa Japan Festival. It was hosted by USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An associate professor of Asian Pacific American studies at Arizona State University, Guevarra spoke about his mixed race heritage as a \u201cMexipino<\/a>,\u201d or Mexican-Filipino, growing up in the borderland city of San Diego<\/a> and how that influenced his doctoral research<\/a> in borderlands, labor history and multiethnic identities…<\/p>\n

…The conference fell on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a> decision that declared anti-interracial marriage laws unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just celebrating who we are, but also reflecting on how our multiplicity can enhance the greater good of the communities we work in,\u201d said Chandra Crudup<\/a>, co-coordinator of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference…<\/p>\n

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

When Rudy Guevarra Jr. filled out identification forms in elementary school, he remembers never checking the provided boxes for race. Instead, he drew his own box, and wrote \u201cMexican-Filipino,\u201d unable to choose one parent\u2019s culture over the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,26,394],"tags":[12723,16622,695,15950,26318,26316,26317,140,365,3622,3621,26319,696],"class_list":["post-52009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-chandra-crudup","tag-cmrs","tag-critical-mixed-race-studies","tag-daily-trojan","tag-dana-stone","tag-erum-jaffrey","tag-jasmine-chu","tag-maria-p-p-root","tag-maria-root","tag-rudy-guevarra-jr","tag-rudy-p-guevarra-jr","tag-the-daily-trojan","tag-university-of-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52009","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=52009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52010,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52009\/revisions\/52010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}