{"id":5570,"date":"2010-03-02T03:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2010-03-02T03:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:31:56","slug":"lewis-explores-race-during-unity-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emorywheel.com\/pdfs\/issues\/issue_8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emorywheel.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Emory Wheel<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 91, Number 22<br \/>\n2009-11-13<br \/>\npage 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pooja Dhruv<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewisfreelance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elliott Lewis<\/a>, former television news reporter and author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4292\" target=\"_blank\">Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America<\/a><\/em>, discussed current American racial issues during his keynote address for Unity Month on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to College sophomores Yan Chen and Melissa Mair, who both helped head the event, Lewis was chosen to speak because of his research on race and the growing multiracial identity in America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cFor example, even though both my parents were half black and half white, they only identified as being black; but I identify as being both,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Lewis said most multiracial people go through a period in their lives when they question how to racially or ethnically identify themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat period of doubt might last 10 minutes or 10 hours, but all multiracial people go through it; I now identify as biracial, half white and half black but, I also went through that period of doubt,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emorywheel.com\/pdfs\/issues\/issue_8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Explores Race During Unity Month The Emory Wheel Volume 91, Number 22 2009-11-13 page 3 Pooja Dhruv, Staff Writer Elliott Lewis, former television news reporter and author of Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, discussed current American racial issues during his keynote address for Unity Month on Wednesday. According to College sophomores Yan Chen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,6,394,20],"tags":[1695,2338,2337],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-elliott-lewis","tag-pooja-dhruv","tag-the-emory-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}