{"id":143,"date":"2010-04-16T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2010-04-23T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:58:48","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project <em>Mixed Unions in Canada<\/em> has culminated out of research in my area of specialization: contemporary notions of mixed race and media representations of ethnicity. Sociologist Ali Rattansi states, &#8220;Hyphenated identities are here to stay. And nowhere does this seem more true than in North America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These mixed identities come with there own pride and problematics. Based on scholarly literature on mixed race I developed a literature review on the subject. Read the academia&#8217;s take on the subject <a href=\"Mixed Unions Lit Review\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While interviewing the 32 couples,\u00a0 selection criteria for my sample was not restricted to whites marrying non-whites but all ethnicities that formed unions outside of their racial groups. I was particularly interested in mixed union off springs in relationships with partners completely outside their racial groups.<\/p>\n<p>For example: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=1\">Fatima Ahmed <\/a>one of the interview subjects is a mixed race child from Indonesian-filipino-Japanese father and Iranian-Pakistani mother. Now she is married to Jerry Chan, a Vancouver born Shanghainese.<\/p>\n<p>The data I collected from these couples was intriguing. When I tried to allocate quantitative values to my search results I was unable to do so. The analysis was qualitative in nature and my supervisor Mary Lynn Young advised that I use it in a text piece for my journalism focus. These results are presented in condensed form on the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project Mixed Unions in Canada has culminated out of research in my area of specialization: contemporary notions of mixed race and media representations of ethnicity. Sociologist Ali Rattansi states, &#8220;Hyphenated identities are here to stay. And nowhere does this seem more true than in North America.&#8221; These mixed identities come with there own pride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1937,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}