{"id":23324,"date":"2012-05-23T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23324"},"modified":"2013-09-21T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T21:04:02","slug":"the-hypocrisy-of-the-pigmentocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23324","title":{"rendered":"The Hypocrisy of the “Pigmentocracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hypocrisy of the “Pigmentocracy”<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Trotter Review<\/a>
\nVolume 7, Issue 2<\/a> (1993) A Special Issue on the Political and Social Relations Between Communities of Color
\nArticle 9
\n4 pages<\/p>\n

Lucas Rivera<\/strong>
\nThe City Sun<\/em><\/p>\n

The following article is excerpted and reprinted with permission of the author and was originally published in two parts in the May 12\u201418 and 19\u201425 issues of The City Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n

The question of race and skin color has haunted both the Latino and black communities, with far too many denying any ties to African ancestry\u2014despite darker skin tones. But the choice many Latinos face\u2014as to whether they should call themselves black or white\u2014may be feeding into the hands of strategists, who may be making economic determinations based on the number of people of color.<\/p>\n

The choice and how it impacts on society has befuddled the minds of many social researchers and is not unlike the problem of color that blacks in America confront. \u201cMy sense is that it hasn\u2019t changed much,\u201d explained Dr. Samuel Betances, a sociology professor at Chicago University who wrote a manifesto on the \u201cPrejudice of Not Having Prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPuerto Ricans and Latinos have a fear of admitting that they are racially mixed. We don\u2019t want to admit we are part of an African legacy. If you ask a Puerto Rican how he would describe himself, as black or white, he would claim he had Indian blood,\u201d Betances said…<\/p>\n

…A Drop of White Blood in Latin America Classifies One as White<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jordan claimed that in Latin America and the Caribbean, the racial parody worked in reverse. \u201cPart of the problem is misunderstanding,\u201d he said. \u201cRacial definitions in Latin America versus the United States are different, in the United States, if you have a drop of black blood, you\u2019re black<\/a>. in Latin America. if you have a drop of white blood, you\u2019re defined as white, which is often referred to as the blancamiento<\/em>, meaning \u2018whitening.\u2019 Jordan further asserted that \u201cthese two definitions clash because when people from Latin America come here, they operate under the rules of Latin America. So people clash because they see racial identifications differently through a prism. The other part is exacerbated by racism within the Latino community. Whereas Latinos pretend there\u2019s no racism in our culture.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

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