{"id":5318,"date":"2004-08-03T18:27:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T18:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:10:10","slug":"americas-label-game-misses-diversity-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/03\/americas-label-game-misses-diversity-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s label game misses diversity of race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2004\/08\/01\/Worldandnation\/America_s_label_game_.shtml\">America&#8217;s label game misses diversity of race<\/a>: The term &#8220;African-American&#8221; does less to define blacks than divide communities. But some hope one man of mixed heritage can ease the tensions.<br \/>\nBy WAVENEY ANN MOORE, Times Staff Writer<br \/>\nPublished August 1, 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the literal sense, rising Democratic star Barack Obama is African-American.<\/p>\n<p>His father was a black man from Kenya, his mother, a white American from Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>African. American.<\/p>\n<p>But racial identity is hardly so simple.<\/p>\n<p>When Obama captivated viewers at last week&#8217;s Democratic National Convention, what did Americans see? What he calls himself and how others perceive him provide a sharp prism through which to view the meaning of &#8220;African-American&#8221; today.<\/p>\n<p>Who is African-American?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article still doesn&#8217;t address the issues of Hispanics and Arabs or the right to include &#8220;white&#8221; in the mixed race spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s label game misses diversity of race: The term &#8220;African-American&#8221; does less to define blacks than divide communities. But some hope one man of mixed heritage can ease the tensions. By WAVENEY ANN MOORE,&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[126,197],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","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=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/7083"}],"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=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}