{"id":5719,"date":"2010-03-07T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2013-04-03T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:02:19","slug":"changing-the-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5719","title":{"rendered":"Changing the stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyuw.com\/2010\/2\/25\/changing-stereotypes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Changing the stereotypes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyuw.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Washington<br \/>\n2010-02-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:lifestyles@dailyuw.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen Steenbeeke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing that the group \u2014 which caters specifically to mixed-race students but is open to anyone \u2014 was lacking officers, they decided to join during spring quarter of last year. Since then, the club has been an outlet for them to discuss mixed-race topics as well as an opportunity to spend time with other students who identify as mixed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a mixed person, I have always felt hesitant to join monoracial organizations,\u201d said Duncalf, whose mother is Filipino and father is Caucasian. \u201cI feel different, and I don\u2019t know if I fit in there, so I like that with Mixed, I can talk about race in different ways \u2026 I can talk to people who feel the same way and who want to change the way we talk about race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussions about new perceptions of race are important, not only among students but in society as a whole. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ralina Joseph<\/a>, a communications professor at the UW, <strong>has made it her goal to change the way we talk about race, especially by disregarding the idea that multiracialism is a separate entity and using it to \u201cdeconstruct notions of race.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think that I would encourage multiracial students to not only identify themselves with a multiracial group, but also to see themselves as a part of their larger racial and ethnic communities,\u201d<\/strong> Joseph said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyuw.com\/2010\/2\/25\/changing-stereotypes\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the stereotypes The Daily University of Washington 2010-02-25 Kristen Steenbeeke Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed. After hearing that the group \u2014 which caters specifically to mixed-race students but is open to anyone \u2014 was lacking officers, they decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,125,8,26,394,20],"tags":[2404,1980,1444,4749,2405],"class_list":["post-5719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-kristen-steenbeeke","tag-ralina-joseph","tag-ralina-l-joseph","tag-ralina-landwehr-joseph","tag-the-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719","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=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}