{"id":63177,"date":"2022-02-21T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63177"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:06:03","slug":"all-mixed-up-multiracial-students-at-cvhs-say-they-dont-fit-in-one-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63177","title":{"rendered":"All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don\u2019t fit in one box"},"content":{"rendered":"

All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don\u2019t fit in one box<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Upstream: The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School<\/a>
\nHouston, Texas<\/p>\n

2022-02-02<\/p>\n

Sofia Hegstrom<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

Noah Mohamed<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n

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Senior Xen Villareal identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black.
\nPhoto courtesy of Xen Villareal<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My eyebrows furrowed as I stared blankly at the question in front of me. My pencil hovered hesitantly over the scholarship form, which posed the question- What is your race?<\/em>, followed by a bolded phrase: Please select one answer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is perhaps one of the most universal experiences for Multiracial Americans. After all, the official census only allowed checking more than one box in the year 2000. However, only recently has this become the norm. And while something like being forced to check the \u2018other\u2019 box on an occasional survey may seem trivial, it is indicative of the larger erasure and invalidation of Multiracial identity.<\/p>\n

Junior Muna Jallad understood she was bi-racial when she was first asked to fill out school enrollment forms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn middle school when I was filling out forms and when they would say check only one race I\u2019d be like, \u2018What do I do here? Other? do I put White, do I put Asian?\u2019 so I feel it kind of clicked then,\u201d said Jallad.<\/p>\n

Xen Villareal, who identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black, also grew up confused about his race…<\/p>\n

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

All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don\u2019t fit in one box The Upstream: The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston, Texas 2022-02-02 Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer Noah Mohamed, Staff Writer Senior Xen Villareal identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black. Photo courtesy of Xen Villareal My eyebrows furrowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,2895,125,8,3015,1249,20],"tags":[33096,20467,33095,33093,33094,33098,33097,33099],"class_list":["post-63177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-texas","category-usa","tag-carnegie-vanguard-high-school","tag-houston","tag-muna-jallad","tag-noah-mohamed","tag-sofia-hegstrom","tag-the-upstream","tag-the-upstream-the-student-run-news-site-of-carnegie-vanguard-high-school","tag-xen-villareal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63177","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=63177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63212,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63177\/revisions\/63212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}