{"id":351,"date":"2008-04-23T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=351"},"modified":"2008-04-23T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T05:20:08","slug":"multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/multiracial\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama has put multi-racial identity in the news.<\/p>\n

In interviews, people of mixed race said their decision about how to identify themselves was deeply personal, not political; it is influenced by how and where they were reared, how others perceive them, what they look like and how they themselves come to embrace their identity. — NY Times: Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My mother is issei, a first-generation Japanese-American. My father is white. <\/p>\n

Growing up an only child with my divorced mother, I never learned her native language, I was late to study her history and never embraced her religion. <\/p>\n

Still, I am profoundly her son. Her force of will, her choices and her halting take on American society defined my childhood.<\/p>\n

So, I try to understand myself in the context of a racial identity I do not quite own. <\/p>\n

My self-identification is an act of will framed by doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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