{"id":11268,"date":"2011-01-05T05:17:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2011-08-20T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T17:37:12","slug":"color-outside-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11268","title":{"rendered":"Color outside the lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color outside the lines<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Columbia Missourian
\n<\/a>2006-06-11<\/p>\n

Sara Fern\u00e1ndez Cendon<\/strong><\/p>\n

The boundaries between traditional racial categories shift as more people identify themselves as multiracial. The term adds another dimension to the complex issue of race in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some say <\/strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong><\/a> started it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After winning the Masters Tournament in 1997<\/a>, the golf star described himself as \u201cCablinasian\u201d \u2014 as in Caucasian, black, American Indian and Asian.<\/p>\n

Colin Powell<\/a>, a light-skinned black man, quickly dismissed Wood\u2019s invention.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn America, which I love from the depths of my heart and soul, when you look like me, you\u2019re black,\u201d Powell said.<\/p>\n

Woods says \u201cCablinasian\u201d honors his multiracial heritage. In 1997 he told Oprah Winfrey<\/a> that being identified solely as an African-American bothered him. But others, who agree with Colin Powell, believe Woods will always be thought of as black and treated as such.<\/p>\n

The Woods-Powell disagreement illustrates the deep rift between those who believe that race is a biological category and those who believe it is a political one. As more mixed-race couples join Woods\u2019 camp by identifying their children as \u201cmultiracial,\u201d or even \u201cwhite,\u201d civil rights groups worry about the loss of historical racial categories.<\/p>\n

Critics of the multiracial label believe the American racial landscape is still dominated by the \u201cone-drop\u201d rule, which held that a person with just one black ancestor was still black. Their argument is that you don\u2019t need much \u201ccolor\u201d to be a \u201cperson of color.\u201d Discrimination affects people of color, they say, regardless of how light their skin might be or how they identify themselves racially…<\/p>\n

…AGAINST THE MULTIRACIAL LABEL<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Brunsma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

White people have made disparaging racial comments around him expecting to get a nod in return. But fair-skinned, red-haired, blue-eyed David Brunsma has no tolerance for \u201cwhiteness\u201d because \u201cwhite\u201d to him is synonymous with privilege. He says he gets questions like, \u201cWhat are the best neighborhoods in town, if you know what I mean …\u201d His response: \u201cNo, I really don\u2019t know what you mean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Half-Puerto Rican and half-Caucasian, Brunsma does not think of himself as biracial, but he does consider \u201cHispanic\u201d to be a racial category…<\/p>\n

…FOR THE MULTIRACIAL LABEL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susan Graham and Project RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t blame Ryan Graham for not wanting to check \u201cother\u201d on questionnaires requesting racial information. \u201cIt makes me feel like a freak or a space alien,\u201d he testified during a U.S. House hearing on multiracial identification back in 1997, when he was 12 years old.<\/p>\n

Ryan\u2019s mother, Susan Graham, is the executive director of Project RACE, an advocacy organization for multiracial individuals. She, too, testified before the House on behalf of a separate multiracial category in census forms.<\/p>\n

In her testimony, Graham berated the \u201call that apply\u201d compromise announced by the Office of Management and Budget just days before the hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy children and millions of children like them merely become \u2018check all that apply\u2019 kids or \u2018check more than one box\u2019 children or \u2018more than one race\u2019 persons. They will be known as \u2018multiple check offs\u2019 or \u2018half and halfers,\u2019\u201d she said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Color outside the lines Columbia Missourian 2006-06-11 Sara Fern\u00e1ndez Cendon The boundaries between traditional racial categories shift as more people identify themselves as multiracial. The term adds another dimension to the complex issue of race in America. Some say Tiger Woods started it all. After winning the Masters Tournament in 1997, the golf star described […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,394,20],"tags":[5048,5051,157,158,5049,5050,5044,5045,5047,5046,2878,5043,5042,5041,3887,105],"class_list":["post-11268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-colin-powell","tag-columbia-missourian","tag-david-brunsma","tag-david-l-brunsma","tag-eric-rodriguez","tag-harold-mcdougall","tag-hector-bonilla-silva","tag-mary-dahm","tag-persia-shahmohammadi","tag-pojmann-ezeonyilo","tag-project-race","tag-sara-cendon","tag-sara-f-cendon","tag-sara-fernandez-cendon","tag-susan-graham","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}