{"id":5380,"date":"2004-12-20T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","slug":"check-box-for-race-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/20\/check-box-for-race-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Check box for race: human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36%257E28388%257E2595430,00.html\">Check box for race: human<\/a><br \/>\nBy Cindy Rodri\u00adguez<br \/>\nDenver Post Columnist<br \/>\nTuesday, December 14, 2004 &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stats tell the story of a community divided and seemingly confused.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to pick a race on U.S. Census forms, nearly half of all Latinos in America choose white, and almost as many say they belong to &#8220;some other race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, technically, there is no &#8220;other&#8221; race. Choosing it implies a rejection of the race paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>Science tells us there is only one race: the human race. But politics, history, culture and the need to put people into categories keep the notion of race alive.<\/p>\n<p>Most Latinos come from a mix of races, making it impossible for most of us to choose one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check box for race: human By Cindy Rodri\u00adguez Denver Post Columnist Tuesday, December 14, 2004 &#8211; The stats tell the story of a community divided and seemingly confused. When asked to pick a race&#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":[126],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oM","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\/5380","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=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions\/5653"}],"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=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}