{"id":7361,"date":"2010-05-25T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2010-05-25T00:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:44:53","slug":"americas-mixed-race-kids-examine-their-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7361","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/lifestyle\/Americas-Mixed-Race-Kids-Examine-Their-Identity-92881844.html\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Voice of America News<\/a><br \/>\n2010-05-05<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiza Elmasry<br \/>\n<\/strong>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Photographs celebrate richness and beauty of multiracial society<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>In his new book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4287\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed: [Portraits of Multiracial Kids]<\/a>,&#8221; writer and artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaweedproductions.com\/about\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kip Fulbeck<\/a> presents a collection of portraits celebrating the faces of mixed-race children.<\/p>\n<p>Kip Fulbeck grew up in a multi-racial family.<\/p>\n<p>His father was English, Irish and Welsh. He had a Chinese mother and Chinese step-siblings. At home, he says, he was considered the white kid, but at school he was the Asian kid. Exploring the multi-racial identity has inspired Fulbeck&#8217;s works, including his recent photography book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"single1\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"300\" height=\"24\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/MediaAssets2\/player\/jw\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"single1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/MediaAssets2\/english\/2010_05\/mixed.mp3&amp;backcolor=7FA3BD&amp;frontcolor=FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/MediaAssets2\/player\/jw\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><embed id=\"single1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"24\" src=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/MediaAssets2\/player\/jw\/player.swf\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/MediaAssets2\/english\/2010_05\/mixed.mp3&amp;backcolor=7FA3BD&amp;frontcolor=FFFFFF\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"single1\" data=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/MediaAssets2\/player\/jw\/player.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/lifestyle\/Americas-Mixed-Race-Kids-Examine-Their-Identity-92881844.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s Mixed-Race Kids Examine Their Identity Voice of America News 2010-05-05 Faiza Elmasry Washington, DC Photographs celebrate richness and beauty of multiracial society At least seven million Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest is rapidly growing in issues of multi-racial identity. In his new book, &#8220;Mixed: [Portraits of Multiracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,6,394,20],"tags":[3057,60,147,3056],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-faiza-elmasry","tag-kip-fulbeck","tag-photography","tag-voice-of-america-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","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=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}