"Lastly, the most powerful tool for politicizing mixed heritage students in my experience was the practice and protection of the right for one to self-identify. Personal identification is an extraordinarily political act because it allows people to decide for themselves, according to their own self-reflection and experiences, how they see and position themselves in society and where society sees and positions them. Mixed Student Union at UCLA was founded on the idea that any member can identify as they choose; in our space people were not going to be assumed to racially/ethnically/linguistically/religiously/culturally identify a certain way. We were not going to judge or pry our way into each person's background. Members were open to express themselves how and when they chose. I drew inspiration from Maria P. Roots' work titled, the "Bill of Rights for Mixed People," in which she lays out several empowering and inclusive rights of mixed-identified people."
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UCLA, officially the University of California, Los Angeles, is a public research university located in the census-designated place of Los Angeles, California. The campus occupies and enrolls over 44,000 students. UCLA is ranked among the top universities in the world. UCLA was founded in 1919 after the California State government acquired the land and buildings of the Los Angeles Normal School and transformed it into the Southern Branch of the .
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