{"id":53243,"date":"2017-04-05T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53243"},"modified":"2017-04-05T19:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:38:03","slug":"student-group-ic-mixed-discusses-mixed-race-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53243","title":{"rendered":"Student group IC Mixed discusses mixed-race experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theithacan.org\/life-culture\/student-group-ic-mixed-discusses-mixed-race-experiences\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Student group IC Mixed discusses mixed-race experiences<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theithacan.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Ithacan<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ashae-forsythe-819502103\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ashae Forsythe<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/theithacan.org\/life-culture\/student-group-ic-mixed-discusses-mixed-race-experiences\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tnuqq21kt870t8n1egkbrmbr-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IC-Mixed_3.23.17_MH-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Sophomores Walt Martzen and Rianna Larkin listen intently to another IC Mixed member Feb. 22 in Friends Hall as they share personal stories of their multiracial backgrounds. <em>Maxine Hansford\/The Ithacan<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In IC Mixed, if there\u2019s one thing the students have in common, it\u2019s that they can\u2019t easily check one box for a race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you can\u2019t be put into a box, it causes inner turmoil for multiracial people themselves: \u2018Where do I belong? I\u2019m not this, I\u2019m not that,\u2019\u201d said junior Luke Watkins, event coordinator for IC Mixed.<\/p>\n<p>The new student organization creates spaces for people of mixed heritage to express their thoughts freely. Launched in February, IC Mixed aims to strengthen the sense of community among people who identify as mixed or multiracial through discussions, events and other programs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/theithacan.org\/life-culture\/student-group-ic-mixed-discusses-mixed-race-experiences\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In IC Mixed, if there\u2019s one thing the students have in common, it\u2019s that they can\u2019t easily check one box for a race or ethnicity.<\/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":[26783,24856,4004,26782,26784,21724,24855],"class_list":["post-53243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ashae-forsythe","tag-ic-mixed","tag-ithaca-college","tag-luke-watkins","tag-rianna-larkin","tag-the-ithacan","tag-walt-martzen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243","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=53243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53244,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243\/revisions\/53244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}