{"id":8310,"date":"2010-08-16T20:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2010-08-16T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:52:25","slug":"claiming-a-biracial-identity-resisting-social-constructions-of-race-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eric.ed.gov\/ERICWebPortal\/search\/recordDetails.jsp?searchtype=basic&amp;pageSize=10&amp;ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ596724&amp;eric_displayStartCount=1&amp;ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&amp;_pageLabel=RecordDetails&amp;objectId=0900019b801391a7&amp;accno=EJ596724&amp;_nfls=false\" target=\"_blank\">Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counseling.org\/Publications\/Journals.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Counseling &amp; Development<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 77, Number 1 (Winter 1999)<br \/>\npages 32-35<br \/>\nISSN-0748-9633<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:carmen.williams@cu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Braun Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Vice President for Diversity<br \/>\n<em>University of Colorado System<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a world where socially constructed categories of race are misconstrued as biological, the author, a light-skinned \u201cBlack,\u201d found herself unacceptable to both sides. From exploring her own Blackness to owning both her Whiteness and her Blackness, her story explores the biracial experience that goes beyond racial identity models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming a Biracial Identity: Resisting Social Constructions of Race and Culture Journal of Counseling &amp; Development Volume 77, Number 1 (Winter 1999) pages 32-35 ISSN-0748-9633 Carmen Braun Williams, Assistant Vice President for Diversity University of Colorado System In a world where socially constructed categories of race are misconstrued as biological, the author, a light-skinned \u201cBlack,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8],"tags":[3526,3525,3527,3524],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-carmen-b-williams","tag-carmen-braun-williams","tag-carmen-williams","tag-journal-of-counseling-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","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=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}