{"id":8361,"date":"2010-08-19T03:34:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2010-08-19T03:34:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:34:30","slug":"biracial-utahns-seeking-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8361","title":{"rendered":"Biracial Utahns seeking identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/600118067\/Biracial-Utahns-seeking-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial Utahns seeking identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Deseret News<\/a><br \/>\nSalt Lake City, Utah<br \/>\n2005-03-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/site\/staff\/82\/Elaine-Jarvik.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Jarvik<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re biracial \u2014 equally Polynesian and white. But most prefer to think of themselves as Polynesian, says University of Utah graduate student Kawika Allen, who recently studied 84 Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who grew up with an Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father, presented his findings Friday at the ninth annual Pacific Islander Awareness Week at the University of Utah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Growing up in Utah, Allen&#8217;s Polynesian friends sometimes thought he wasn&#8217;t Polynesian enough, and he wasn&#8217;t sure if he fit in his father&#8217;s white world either. That angst later led to a master&#8217;s thesis on biracial identity among Utah&#8217;s biracial Polynesians, who now number more than 3,000.<\/p>\n<p>Although previous research of other biracial Americans found that children tend to identify more with the same-sex parent, regardless of ethnicity, Allen found that among Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns, children tended to identify more with the Polynesian parent, regardless of gender.<\/p>\n<p>He also found that biracial Polynesians were more likely to receive negative messages about being biracial if their fathers, rather than mothers, were Polynesian&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/600118067\/Biracial-Utahns-seeking-identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial Utahns seeking identity Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah 2005-03-12 Elaine Jarvik They&#8217;re biracial \u2014 equally Polynesian and white. But most prefer to think of themselves as Polynesian, says University of Utah graduate student Kawika Allen, who recently studied 84 Polynesian-Caucasian Utahns. Allen, who grew up with an Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,414,125,394,20],"tags":[3539,3541,3540],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-elaine-jarvik","tag-kawika-allen","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","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=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}