{"id":56829,"date":"2018-08-25T02:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56829"},"modified":"2018-08-25T02:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:29:35","slug":"the-very-first-time-i-became-aware-of-how-my-ethnicity-affected-me-was-when-i-was-asked-what-my-race-was-on-a-form-when-i-was-in-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56829","title":{"rendered":"The very first time I became aware of how my ethnicity affected me was when I was asked what my race was on a form when I was in elementary school."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The very first time I became aware of how my ethnicity affected me was when I was asked what my race was on a form when I was in elementary school. Ten to twenty years ago, official documents didn\u2019t give you the option to say that you were multiracial or choose more than one race. I remember being a little confused because I knew my skin was Black, but both my parents weren\u2019t. In the end, I chose \u201cBlack\u201d and sometimes I still just choose \u201cBlack\u201d when I think my ethnicity is too complicated for others to understand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Latonya Pennington, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Being Proud of my Blasian Identity Didn\u2019t Come Without Some Pain<\/a>,\u201d <em>Wear Your Voice<\/em>, May 30, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/proud-blasian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/wearyourvoicemag.com\/identities\/race\/proud-blasian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first time I became aware of how my ethnicity affected me was when I was asked what my race was on a form when I was in elementary school. Ten to twenty years ago, official documents didn\u2019t give you the option to say that you were multiracial or choose more than one race. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28954,24550],"class_list":["post-56829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-latonya-pennington","tag-wear-your-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829","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=56829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56830,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56829\/revisions\/56830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}