{"id":5329,"date":"2004-08-09T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2021-06-10T04:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T04:01:05","slug":"be-careful-with-racial-ethnic-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/09\/be-careful-with-racial-ethnic-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Be careful with racial, ethnic labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, August 2, 2004<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/ocr\/2004\/08\/02\/sections\/business\/business_columns\/article_187259.php\">Be careful with racial, ethnic labels<\/a><br \/>\nBy STEPHEN WILBERS<br \/>\nSpecial to the Register <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an Eskimo,&#8221; a middle-age woman told me on a recent visit to the Alaskan Native Heritage Center in Anchorage. &#8220;You may refer to me as Eskimo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you call me an Eskimo,&#8221; a young woman said minutes later, &#8220;I will answer because that&#8217;s how you know me, but I am not Eskimo. I am Yup&#8217;ik.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Alaska, tourists eagerly seek out art and culture that is referred to as &#8220;Native,&#8221; but in Minnesota the Indian Affairs Council recently passed a resolution that &#8220;officially requests Minnesota news media and agencies of government to refer to members of federally recognized tribes as American Indians or Indians&#8221; rather than as Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p>So are you Eskimo or Yup&#8217;ik, Native American or Indian, white or Caucasian, black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino, Mexican American or Chicano?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that the author doesn&#8217;t consider mixed race issues at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, August 2, 2004 Be careful with racial, ethnic labels By STEPHEN WILBERS Special to the Register &#8220;I&#8217;m an Eskimo,&#8221; a middle-age woman told me on a recent visit to the Alaskan Native Heritage&#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],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nX","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\/5329","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=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/7075"}],"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=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}