{"id":7895,"date":"2010-07-08T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2013-02-20T04:51:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:51:46","slug":"questions-for-maya-soetoro-ng-all-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7895","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/magazine\/20wwln-Q4-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times<br \/>\n2008-01-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deborah Solomon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Let\u2019s talk about the Democratic presidential caucuses taking place on Feb. 19, in Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born. Will you be campaigning for your brother?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Yes, of course. I have taken time off from my various teaching jobs in Honolulu and just got back from two months of campaigning. I have a bumper sticker on my car that says: \u201c1-20-09. End of an Error.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think of your brother as black?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, because that is how he has named himself. Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think of yourself as white?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo. I\u2019m half white, half Asian. I think of myself as hybrid. People usually think I\u2019m Latina when they meet me. That\u2019s what made me learn Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That sort of culturally mixed identity was seen as an anomaly when you were growing up.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Of course, there was a time when that felt like unsteady terrain, and it made me feel vulnerable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/magazine\/20wwln-Q4-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family The New York Times 2008-01-20 Deborah Solomon Q: Let\u2019s talk about the Democratic presidential caucuses taking place on Feb. 19, in Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born. Will you be campaigning for your brother? Yes, of course. I have taken time off from my various teaching jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,8,26,20,25],"tags":[2709,1694,2327],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-women","tag-deborah-solomon","tag-maya-soetoro-ng","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","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=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}