{"id":20898,"date":"2012-02-26T22:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20898"},"modified":"2014-09-08T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:48:09","slug":"time-to-think-in-full-color-about-race-ethnicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20898","title":{"rendered":"TIME to Think in Full Color About Race & Ethnicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

TIME to Think in Full Color About Race & Ethnicity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n2012-02-25<\/p>\n

Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar
\nBrown University<\/em><\/p>\n

TIME Magazine’s<\/a> latest cover story (Feb. 2\/24) is called “Yo Decido. Why Latinos will pick the next President<\/a>.” It reports that about 9% of all voters in 2012 will be Latino, up 26% from four years ago. While the Latin@ vote is definitely an important and interesting and game-changing political development, the most interesting thing about this story isn’t the headline or the article’s statistics. It’s the cover<\/a> (left).<\/p>\n

The cover claims to feature 20 portraits of Latin@s with captions. Some are individual or occupational descriptions like dancer, DREAMer, nutrition undergrad, car aficionado and immigration activist. Other descriptions are nation-oriented, like Mexicans, Hondurans and Guatemalans.<\/p>\n

Here’s the problem: In reality, the cover features only 19 portraits of Latin@s and one man who passes as Latino but actually identifies himself as multiracial\u2014half Chinese and half White. According to Michelle Woo at the OC Weekly<\/em>, “That man is Michael Schennum, is the short-haired gentleman in the top row, center, behind the letter ‘M.’ He is half Chinese and half White. Not Latino. Not even a little bit.”…<\/p>\n

…Sociologists have identified two patterns emerging in US multiracial communities. Asian \/ Whites and Latin@ \/ Whites tend to acknowledge and celebrate all aspects of their backgrounds but live life as Whites, especially if their fathers are White. Black \/ Whites and Black \/ Asian, Black \/ Latin@s tend to celebrate all aspects of their backgrounds but live their lives as Black<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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

TIME to Think in Full Color About Race & Ethnicity Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D. 2012-02-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University TIME Magazine’s latest cover story (Feb. 2\/24) is called “Yo Decido. Why Latinos will pick the next President.” It reports that about 9% of all voters in 2012 will be Latino, up 26% […]<\/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":[3083,2408,2406,3521],"class_list":["post-20898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898","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=20898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}