{"id":26052,"date":"2012-10-18T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26052"},"modified":"2012-11-17T03:03:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:03:53","slug":"afraid-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26052","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/2012\/10\/15\/afraid-of-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afraid of the Dark<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/racefiles\" target=\"_blank\">RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scot Nakagawa<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Partner<br \/>\n<em>ChangeLab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reports of rapid demographic change in favor of people of color in the U.S. seem to have caused a reaction among many whites bordering on panic. Explosive increases in participation in white nationalist groups, the proliferation of vigilante border patrols, and the return of overt racism in mainstream politics all smell like fear to me. This reaction got me to thinking, why? Why are they so afraid of the possibility of becoming a minority?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHere\u2019s my take. But first, a reality check. White fears are of becoming a minority are over-blown. As I\u2019ve written elsewhere in this blog, whiteness has shifted to envelope those formerly deemed non-white many times throughout history. <strong>The Irish weren\u2019t always considered white, nor were Jews. They were included among whites in order to maintain white advantage.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nAs racial demographics shift, <strong>so-called white Hispanics and certain Asian American ethnic minorities are likely to be enveloped by whiteness.<\/strong> Whether we think of ourselves as white or not, accepting the privileges already being extended to us\u2014being cast as the \u201cgood immigrants\u201d or buying into the idea that Asians are a \u201cmodel minority\u201d relative to so-called \u201cproblem minorities,\u201d for instance\u2014will put us on the wrong side of the color line. And when the stakes are so high, we can hope folks won\u2019t take the bribe, but I wouldn\u2019t advise betting on it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSo white folks can rest easy. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armageddon\" target=\"_blank\">Armageddon<\/a> is probably still a way off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changelabinfo.com\/2012\/10\/15\/afraid-of-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afraid of the Dark RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-15 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab Reports of rapid demographic change in favor of people of color in the U.S. seem to have caused a reaction among many whites bordering on panic. Explosive increases in participation in white nationalist groups, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,394,20],"tags":[12742,12743,10674],"class_list":["post-26052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-racefiles","tag-racefiles-on-race-and-racism-in-our-politics-and-daily-lives","tag-scot-nakagawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052","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=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}