{"id":55208,"date":"2017-11-20T01:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55208"},"modified":"2017-11-20T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:18:22","slug":"what-are-you-embracing-a-mixed-roots-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55208","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat are you?\u201d: Embracing a mixed-roots identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat are you?\u201d: Embracing a mixed-roots identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Pitt News<\/a>
\n2017-11-12<\/p>\n

Erica Brandbergh<\/strong><\/a>, Columnist<\/p>\n

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\n(Illustration by Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator) <\/small><\/p>\n

I once asked my dad, out of curiosity, whether he put Caucasian, Asian or both on surveys that ask about his race. He paused for a bit and said he didn\u2019t know. I asked if he identified with one more than the other, and he was unsure of that as well.<\/p>\n

My dad is half-Japanese. He was born on an American Army base in Okinawa<\/a> and came to the United States<\/a> at a young age with my grandparents and his siblings. His mom \u2014 who we call \u201cOba\u201d \u2014 is from southwestern Japan. My Oba never taught my father Japanese<\/a>, so I never learned much beyond the basics that she taught me when she was my kindergarten teacher.<\/p>\n

Despite my diminished interaction with my non-white heritage, it was clear from my experiences growing up as someone with only one-quarter Asian ancestry that white society at large didn\u2019t consider me fully one of its own. That reality is even more pronounced for people who are half non-white, like my father, or even more…<\/p>\n

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I once asked my dad, out of curiosity, whether he put Caucasian, Asian or both on surveys that ask about his race. He paused for a bit and said he didn\u2019t know. I asked if he identified with one more than the other, and he was unsure of that as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,16,395,125,8,20],"tags":[27667,27666],"class_list":["post-55208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-erica-brandbergh","tag-the-pitt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208","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=55208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55209,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions\/55209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}