{"id":9738,"date":"2010-10-24T01:42:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2010-10-24T01:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T01:43:58","slug":"9738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9738","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Multi-ethnic clubs benefit community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/index.php\/article\/2010\/10\/multiethnic_clubs_benefit_community\" target=\"_blank\">Letter to the Editor: Multi-ethnic clubs benefit community<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Bruin<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\n2010-10-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Lopez<\/strong>, Alumnus<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s in a name?<\/p>\n<p>Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. So often throughout history, names have been given for us, many of them pejorative, that it becomes difficult for multiracial people to pick just one. I suppose it\u2019s no wonder, then, that when we choose to name ourselves, or the organizations we form, that someone will take an affront to it.<\/p>\n<p>Salim Zymet, in his article \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9480\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA needs more than just one multiethnic club<\/a>\u201d (Oct. 12), seems to be simultaneously lamenting the dearth of multiethnic\/multiracial organizations as well as the proliferation of others. It is unclear what organizations he may be a member of, if any, although he does make it clear that he \u201cwould never fathom joining the Hapa Club because of the word\u2019s association to Asian heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have been active in the multiracial community for almost 20 years in various organizations. This community includes multiracial and multiethnic people, interracial couples and trans-racially adoptive families. I believe that the more awareness we raise about the multiracial community, the better society may become.<\/p>\n<p>I may not have the solution to Mr. Zymet\u2019s dilemma, but I can offer up this story. During the early \u201990s I was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. I joined a student group there called the Multicultural Interracial Students Coalition (MISC) or \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d for short. A little tongue-in-cheek, I know, but better than the original name Students of Interracial Descent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire letter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/index.php\/article\/2010\/10\/multiethnic_clubs_benefit_community\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor: Multi-ethnic clubs benefit community Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-10-18 Thomas Lopez, Alumnus University of California, Berkeley What\u2019s in a name? Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. So often throughout history, names have been given for us, many of them pejorative, that it becomes difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,6,20],"tags":[3032,4105,4220,4106,4107],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-daily-bruin","tag-salim-zymet","tag-thomas-lopez","tag-ucla","tag-university-of-california-at-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","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=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}