{"id":21596,"date":"2012-03-20T02:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21596"},"modified":"2013-05-27T02:36:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T02:36:53","slug":"white-latino-leaders-a-foregone-conclusion-or-mischaracterization-of-latino-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21596","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;White Latino&#8221; Leaders: A Foregone Conclusion or Mischaracterization of Latino Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu\/tma\/vol3\/iss2\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;White Latino&#8221; Leaders: A Foregone Conclusion or Mischaracterization of Latino Society<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu\/tma\" target=\"_blank\">The Modern American<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu\/tma\/vol3\/iss2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 3, Issue 2<\/a> (Summer-Fall, 2007)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu\/tma\/vol3\/iss2\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article 11<\/a><br \/>\npages 62-65<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric M. Gutierrez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Am I white? My personal inquiry into race begins with a school picture of a six-year-old boy. My dark brown hair, parted to one side, falls impishly over half-cocked eyebrows. My eyes, more almond-shaped than oval, are a murky blue with green speckles. My nose, a thicker version of the traditional aquiline Roman contour, fades into a tiny bulbous tip. My smile, close-mouthed and askance. My skin, white, even with a faded summer tan.<\/p>\n<p>If I am white, whether I have claimed it or not, has it afforded me the privileges of a racial hierarchy skewed towards the dominant white culture? Moreover, has my apparent skin color placed me in a leadership role in the Latino community based merely on society\u2019s perception of what that race is? Will that perception imply that I will turn my back on the Latino community that raised me, opting instead for the spoils of an influential white power structure?<\/p>\n<p>In this article I consider the arguments presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/php-programs\/faculty\/facultyProfile.php?facID=301\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Haney L\u00f3pez<\/a> in his essay entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=21593\" target=\"_blank\">White Latinos<\/a>\u201d and analyze the validity of his statements on white Latino community leaders. I examine and challenge L\u00f3pez\u2019s assertions regarding the characterization of Latino leaders, generally; and his description of an emerging Latino culture identified as \u201cMexican Americans,\u201d the \u201cBrown Race,\u201d and the \u201cNew Whites,\u201d specifically.<\/p>\n<p>The most crucial assertion by L\u00f3pez is that white Latino leaders are the most prevalent and influential in Latino society and that by emphasizing their whiteness as a key component of their identity, they facilitate the mistreatment of Latinos and buttress social inequality. Although I agree with many of L\u00f3pez\u2019s assertions about white Latino leaders, I believe the aforementioned assertion is a mischaracterization of Latino leadership and neglects to consider the cultural values from which these leaders arise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1075&amp;context=tma\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;White Latino&#8221; Leaders: A Foregone Conclusion or Mischaracterization of Latino Society The Modern American Volume 3, Issue 2 (Summer-Fall, 2007) Article 11 pages 62-65 Eric M. Gutierrez Am I white? My personal inquiry into race begins with a school picture of a six-year-old boy. My dark brown hair, parted to one side, falls impishly over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,1467,1196,8,20],"tags":[10113,10112,3096,728,1957],"class_list":["post-21596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-law","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-eric-gutierrez","tag-eric-m-gutierrez","tag-ian-f-haney-lopez","tag-ian-haney-lopez","tag-the-modern-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596","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=21596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}