{"id":63216,"date":"2022-02-22T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63216"},"modified":"2022-02-22T22:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:13:22","slug":"i-discovered-i-was-an-asian-american-when-i-arrived-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63216","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.<\/a>,\u201d says Mitski [Miyawaki]. \u201cI didn&#8217;t identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Murphy, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitski Doesn\u2019t Bother With Labels. She Prefers Excellence<\/a>,\u201d <em>Westworld<\/em>, July 14, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/music\/mitski-miyawakis-mixed-race-identity-informs-her-music-9246091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.westword.com\/music\/mitski-miyawakis-mixed-race-identity-informs-her-music-9246091<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S.,\u201d says Mitski [Miyawaki]. \u201cI didn&#8217;t identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.\u201d Tom Murphy, \u201cMitski Doesn\u2019t Bother With Labels. She Prefers Excellence,\u201d Westworld, July 14, 2017. https:\/\/www.westword.com\/music\/mitski-miyawakis-mixed-race-identity-informs-her-music-9246091.<\/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":[33119,33088,33090,33089],"class_list":["post-63216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-mitski","tag-mitski-miyawaki","tag-tom-murphy","tag-westworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63216","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=63216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63217,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63216\/revisions\/63217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}