{"id":52731,"date":"2017-03-22T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52731"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:38:55","slug":"biracial-and-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52731","title":{"rendered":"Biracial and Jewish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/20\/opinion\/biracial-and-jewish.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Biracial and Jewish<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2017-03-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/academics\/departments-and-programs\/sociology\/faculty\/helen-kim\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Helen Kiyong Kim<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/academics\/departments-and-programs\/sociology\/faculty\/noah-leavitt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Noah Samuel Leavitt<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Dean of Students<br \/>\n<em>Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>Re \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52062\" target=\"_blank\">What Biracial People Know<\/a>\u201d (Sunday Review, March 5):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moisesvm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moises Velasquez-Manoff<\/a> makes a number of vital points about the creative ways that biracial people navigate the world.<\/p>\n<p>During 2011-14, we interviewed 39 young men and women who were the offspring of Jewish and Asian parents. Supporting Mr. Velasquez-<\/p>\n<p>Manoff\u2019s point that biracialism breaks down <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tribalism\" target=\"_blank\">tribalism<\/a> \u2014 and perhaps extending his assertions \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/07\/08\/jewish-and-asian-intermarriages-that-yield-jewish-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">our research<\/a> found that these young people strongly identified both as multiracial as well as Jewish in a surprisingly traditional religious sense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/20\/opinion\/biracial-and-jewish.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moises Velasquez-Manoff makes a number of vital points about the creative ways that biracial people navigate the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,3601,12566,8,820,394,20],"tags":[4046,21863,15332,2640,19096,21864,2327],"class_list":["post-52731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-judaism","category-letters","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-helen-kim","tag-helen-kiyong-kim","tag-moises-velasquez-manoff","tag-new-york-times","tag-noah-leavitt","tag-noah-samuel-leavitt","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52731","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=52731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52732,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52731\/revisions\/52732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}