{"id":58289,"date":"2019-06-04T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58289"},"modified":"2019-06-04T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:13:56","slug":"i-grew-up-though-and-began-finding-power-in-being-mixed-race-and-learning-to-claim-both-my-aapi-upbringing-most-of-my-friends-were-asian-american-with-the-truth-of-both-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58289","title":{"rendered":"I grew up, though, and began finding power in being mixed race, and learning to claim both my AAPI upbringing (most of my friends were Asian-American) with the truth of both cultures."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I grew up, though, and began finding power in being mixed race, and learning to claim both my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AAPI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAPI<\/a> upbringing (most of my friends were Asian-American) with the truth of both cultures. I learned Spanish and danced <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tinikling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinikling<\/a>. While I still got the looks and the questions, knowing that I wasn\u2019t alone in my responses and frustrations made it more bearable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christina Torres, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Seeker of Stories<\/a>,\u201d<em> Christina Torres: Teacher. Runner. Writer.<\/em>, May 23, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/christinatorres.org\/2019\/05\/23\/the-seeker-of-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/christinatorres.org\/2019\/05\/23\/the-seeker-of-stories\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up, though, and began finding power in being mixed race, and learning to claim both my AAPI upbringing (most of my friends were Asian-American) with the truth of both cultures. I learned Spanish and danced Tinikling. While I still got the looks and the questions, knowing that I wasn\u2019t alone in my responses [&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":[19490,29905],"class_list":["post-58289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-christina-torres","tag-christina-torres-teacher-runner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58289","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=58289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58290,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58289\/revisions\/58290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}