{"id":5378,"date":"2004-12-17T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","slug":"hispanics-and-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/17\/hispanics-and-racial-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanics and racial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/living\/2002113407_jdl09.html\">Hispanics and racial identity<\/a><br \/>\nThe Seattle Times<br \/>\nby Jerry Large<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A reader called the other day to complain about a phrase I&#8217;d used.<\/p>\n<p>I had written about census statistics for non-Hispanic whites, and the caller, who is white, didn&#8217;t like being defined by what he isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I understand. Racial classifications are troublesome &#8211; a legacy of determined efforts to assign people a place in an economic and social hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>The reality of people&#8217;s identity is always more complicated than the words suggest. We struggle with being defined by race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There seems to be a gentleman&#8217;s agreement not to mention Hispanic and Anglo people of mixed racial lineage in the same article or speech. Certainly, no one dares point out that Hispanics openly defy the supposed &#8220;one drop&#8221; rule. They also claim the right to be &#8220;white&#8221; and &#8220;minority&#8221; at the same time and are never challenged on this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanics and racial identity The Seattle Times by Jerry Large A reader called the other day to complain about a phrase I&#8217;d used. I had written about census statistics for non-Hispanic whites, and the&#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":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[121,126],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oK","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\/5378","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=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/5655"}],"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=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}