{"id":59129,"date":"2019-10-26T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59129"},"modified":"2019-10-26T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:42:12","slug":"our-society-is-racially-illiterate-in-general-and-the-greatest-illiteracy-is-to-be-in-the-presence-of-a-multiracial-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59129","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur society is racially illiterate in general, and the greatest illiteracy is to be in the presence of a multiracial person.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for administrations to catch up,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/g-reginald-daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G. Reginald Daniel, PhD<\/a>, professor and vice chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. One of the key areas lagging behind in universities is student counseling. \u201cThere are special kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microaggression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">microaggressions<\/a> that come with multiracial identity,\u201d says Daniel. \u201cOur society is racially illiterate in general, and the greatest illiteracy is to be in the presence of a multiracial person.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kristal Brent Zook, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universities Are Still Struggling to Provide for Mixed-Race Students<\/a>,\u201d <em>Zora<\/em>, September 23, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/zora.medium.com\/universities-are-still-struggling-to-provide-for-mixed-race-students-d291d89c5b60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/zora.medium.com\/universities-are-still-struggling-to-provide-for-mixed-race-students-d291d89c5b60<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for administrations to catch up,\u201d says G. Reginald Daniel, PhD, professor and vice chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. One of the key areas lagging behind in universities is student counseling. \u201cThere are special kinds of microaggressions that come with multiracial identity,\u201d says Daniel. \u201cOur [&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":[142,20320,30143],"class_list":["post-59129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-kristal-brent-zook","tag-zora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129","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=59129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59130,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129\/revisions\/59130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}