{"id":5221,"date":"2004-07-08T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2021-06-13T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:20:36","slug":"at-colleges-immigrants-are-minorities-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/08\/at-colleges-immigrants-are-minorities-too\/","title":{"rendered":"At colleges, immigrants are `minorities&#8217; too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/\">At colleges, immigrants are `minorities&#8217; too <\/a><br \/>\nThe Chicago Tribune<br \/>\nClarence Page<br \/>\nJuly 7, 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smiles turned to tightened jaws at the most recent reunion of Harvard University&#8217;s black alumni.<\/p>\n<p>The mood shift, as reported recently in The New York Times, occurred when two very prominent black faculty members reported encouraging increases in Harvard&#8217;s black enrollment, then raised questions as to where those new black students were coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard law professor Lani Guinier and Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of Harvard&#8217;s African and African-American studies department, reported that 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard&#8217;s undergraduates are black, but somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of them are &#8220;West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At colleges, immigrants are `minorities&#8217; too The Chicago Tribune Clarence Page July 7, 2004 Smiles turned to tightened jaws at the most recent reunion of Harvard University&#8217;s black alumni. The mood shift, as reported&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[213,99],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-education","tag-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1md","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}