{"id":57394,"date":"2019-01-27T23:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57394"},"modified":"2019-01-27T23:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T23:42:26","slug":"local-stories-show-realities-of-biracial-identity-for-people-and-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57394","title":{"rendered":"Local Stories Show Realities of Biracial Identity for People and Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local Stories Show Realities of Biracial Identity for People and Families<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

WAER 88.3 FM<\/a>
\nSyracuse University
\nSyracuse, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

2019-01-24<\/p>\n

Chris Bolt<\/strong><\/a>, News Director<\/p>\n

Elliott Lewis<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Practice, Broadcast & Digital Journalism
\nS.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications<\/em>
\nSyracuse University, Syracuse, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

Comedy Central\u2019s<\/a> Trevor Noah<\/a> is the featured speaker at Syracuse University\u2019s Martin Luther King celebration<\/a> this Sunday. Noah\u2019s life story as the son of a South African mother and European father has struck a chord with many on campus. SU journalism professor Elliott Lewis explores the ways biracial Americans are answering questions of race and identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in South Africa<\/a> during Apartheid<\/a>, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family \u2026\u201d wrote Trevor Noah in his book \u201cBorn a Crime<\/a>\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the story here<\/a>. Listen to the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comedy Central\u2019s Trevor Noah is the featured speaker at Syracuse University\u2019s Martin Luther King celebration this Sunday. Noah\u2019s life story as the son of a South African mother and European father has struck a chord with many on campus. SU journalism professor Elliott Lewis explores the ways biracial Americans are answering questions of race and identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,125,8,20],"tags":[29326,1695,27069,29328,29327,323,12468,15219,29325],"class_list":["post-57394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chris-bolt","tag-elliott-lewis","tag-jami-floyd","tag-jason-gruber","tag-lyssa-thomas","tag-paul-spickard","tag-syracuse-university","tag-trevor-noah","tag-waer-88-3-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394","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=57394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57395,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57394\/revisions\/57395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}