{"id":62536,"date":"2021-12-06T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62536"},"modified":"2021-12-06T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:23:11","slug":"ut-students-staff-reflect-on-experiences-with-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62536","title":{"rendered":"UT students, staff reflect on experiences with racial passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailytexan.com\/2021\/12\/05\/ut-students-staff-reflect-on-experiences-with-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>UT students, staff reflect on experiences with racial passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailytexan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900<\/a><br \/>\n2021-12-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sofia-trevi%C3%B1o-a5b7321b8\/\"><strong>Sofia Trevi\u00f1o<\/strong><\/a>, Life &amp; Arts Senior Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailytexan.com\/2021\/12\/05\/ut-students-staff-reflect-on-experiences-with-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailytexan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/12-2-21_Sasha-white-passing_Julius-Shieh-900x675.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Julius Shieh\/<em>The Daily Texan<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Disliking her paler skin compared to other darker-complected Hispanics growing up, <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/mals\/faculty\/rvg225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Gonz\u00e1lez-Martin<\/a> spent hours lying under the sun willing herself to tan. Only burning and turning red, she grew frustrated. Gonz\u00e1lez-Martin wanted others to easily recognize her as Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s who we know we are and how we tell our own story, but we can never escape from what people see in us or read from our appearance,\u201d the associate professor of Mexican American and Latina\/o studies said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racial passing<\/a> \u2014 a term used to describe those perceived as a member of another racial group than their own \u2014 can affect how closely people connect to and feel a part of their communities. For UT students and staff, the process of navigating different cultural stereotypes and learning to embrace their identities regardless of their appearance remains a lifelong project.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oakland%2C_California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland, California<\/a>, with very few fellow Hispanics, Gonz\u00e1lez-Martin felt she needed to physically show her identity. However, as she\u2019s grown older, she said she\u2019s learned to accept her own meaning of belonging to a community aside from outside biases&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailytexan.com\/2021\/12\/05\/ut-students-staff-reflect-on-experiences-with-racial-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT students, staff reflect on experiences with racial passing The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900 2021-12-05 Sofia Trevi\u00f1o, Life &amp; Arts Senior Reporter Julius Shieh\/The Daily Texan Disliking her paler skin compared to other darker-complected Hispanics growing up, Rachel Gonz\u00e1lez-Martin spent hours lying under the sun willing herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,2895,14646,8,6462,1249,20],"tags":[21679,455,32603,32602,18255,28777,32600,32601,32599,32598,5928,5752,4134],"class_list":["post-62536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-campus-life","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-texas","category-usa","tag-austin","tag-california","tag-faye-haynes","tag-kaitlyn-gomez","tag-oakland","tag-rachel-gonzalez-martin","tag-rachel-v-gonzalez","tag-rachel-v-gonzalez-martin","tag-rachel-valentina-gonzalez","tag-sofia-trevino","tag-the-daily-texan","tag-university-of-texas","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62536","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=62536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62538,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62536\/revisions\/62538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}