{"id":59999,"date":"2020-07-19T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59999"},"modified":"2020-07-19T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T17:13:50","slug":"the-black-lives-matter-movement-as-an-asian-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59999","title":{"rendered":"The Black Lives Matter Movement As An Asian American"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Black Lives Matter Movement As An Asian American<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bozeman Magazine<\/a>
\nBozeman, Montana<\/em>
\n2020-07-01<\/p>\n

Cassie Pfannenstiel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The issue of race in America<\/a> is complex. Many communities of varying cultures exist together often without accepting one another in a meaningful way. Growing up in a multicultural home as a mixed-race child, I often felt as a cultural outsider to either half of me. Around my white friends and family, I was the minority and with other Asians, I was \u201ctoo white\u201d to really fit in.<\/p>\n

I had two different sides of me that were never really brought together. I wasn\u2019t allowed to learn Tagalog<\/a> from my mother growing up, which caused me to miss out on a lot of Filipino culture and deeper relationships. Even today, my mother and I have a strained relationship because of the language barrier between us. The lack of that half of my culture was filled by the other half of my upbringing: a mostly white-washed experience in which I still wasn\u2019t fully accepted because of my mixed origins. As a child, I was unable to understand where I stood amongst the white kids with \u201cnormal\u201d upbringings. When I looked at myself, I couldn\u2019t tell if I even looked Asian or not. I became used to random strangers asking questions like: \u201cWhat are you?\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s your heritage?\u201d \u201cWhere are you from? No, originally.\u201d These questions solidified my racial ambiguity. I became used to identifying as white and American first before my more prominent Asian culture. The questioning reminded me that although I had embraced and assimilated into white culture, I was not white…<\/p>\n

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

Being an active ally for POC is difficult; it can be hard to know where to start, what to do. I have considered myself an ally of POC for several years without actually having taken action. To understand your role as an ally is to remember that not being racist is simply the baseline, but being anti-racist is where we should all strive to be. To be complacent is to perpetuate systemic racism, and in doing so you fail in your role as an ally of POC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,23674,20],"tags":[31050,31049,31048,1768],"class_list":["post-59999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-bozeman","tag-bozeman-magazine","tag-cassie-pfannenstiel","tag-montana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59999","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=59999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60000,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59999\/revisions\/60000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}