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College Publisher Network featured a piece on The Mixed Club, a new campus organization for mixed students at Washington University in St. Louis. The group hopes to bring about more understanding and visibility on campus. Good luck to the students of the Mixed Club!

White added that there is a lack of awareness on campus about mixed races. She said students had a tendency to see their racially mixed peers as belonging to only one racial group.

“People looking for a cultural group but who don’t feel totally comfortable in the groups that exist on campus should feel welcome in our group,” White said. “People should not belittle the racial experience of mixed race people. I might not be a ‘minority’ or fully ‘of color,’ but neither am I white. White people often see what they feel comfortable seeing in me. What people should do is listen and be willing to openly discuss mixed race people’s experiences. Don’t see what you want to see…let us speak for ourselves.”