{"id":52704,"date":"2017-03-21T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52704"},"modified":"2017-03-21T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:47:13","slug":"multi-attends-fourth-annual-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52704","title":{"rendered":"Multi attends fourth annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/culture\/2017\/03\/14\/multi-attends-fourth-annual-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference\/2886208\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Multi attends fourth annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Occidental Weekly<\/a><br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<br \/>\n2017-03-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristine White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/culture\/2017\/03\/14\/multi-attends-fourth-annual-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference\/2886208\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MULTI_USCconference_CULTURE_HannahSchoenberger-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C681\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/multioxy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multi<\/a>, Occidental\u2019s cultural club for multiracial and multicultural students, sent a group of eight members and nonmembers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalmixedracestudies.wordpress.com\/cmrs2017-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference<\/a> at the University of Southern California from Feb. 24 to Feb. 26. The conference brought together scholars, activists and artists from around the globe to explore the field of critical race studies with over 50 panels, roundtables, caucus sessions and performances. In celebration of the 50-year anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a>, which declared interracial marriage legal, the theme of this year\u2019s conference was \u201cExplorations in Trans(gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After <em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After last semester\u2019s Multi Week, Oct. 23 to Oct. 28, Multi President Miki Konishi (junior) noticed that Multi garnered increased attention around campus from students. Konishi, Khloe Swanson (junior) and Eushrah Hossein created Multi three years ago in an effort to provide space for and discuss the experience of multiracial and multicultural identities. The club meets bimonthly to discuss issues that multiracial students face and to provide a safe space to discuss the various factors that affect their identity. Konishi explained that, before joining Multi, he attended other monocultural clubs on campus and found it necessary to provide a space for students who identify with multiple cultures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/culture\/2017\/03\/14\/multi-attends-fourth-annual-critical-mixed-race-studies-conference\/2886208\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, Multi, Occidental\u2019s cultural club for multiracial and multicultural students, sent a group of eight members and nonmembers to the 2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at the University of Southern California from Feb. 24 to Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,20],"tags":[26608,26602,26607,26609,26601,26600,26599,26603,26606,22835,26605,26604],"class_list":["post-52704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alma-olavarria-gallegos","tag-eushrah-hossein","tag-hannah-schoenberger","tag-joshua-harmon","tag-khloe-swanson","tag-konishi","tag-kristine-white","tag-miki-konishi","tag-multi","tag-occidental-college","tag-occidental-weekly","tag-the-occidental-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52704","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=52704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52706,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52704\/revisions\/52706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}