{"id":27616,"date":"2013-01-16T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27616"},"modified":"2013-05-27T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:26:10","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-not-black-i%e2%80%99m-hispanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27616","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Not Black, I\u2019m Hispanic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bornbiculturalusa.com\/2009\/12\/29\/im-not-black-im-hispanic\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m Not Black, I\u2019m Hispanic!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bornbiculturalusa.com\" target=\"_blank\">Born Bicultural USA<\/a><br \/>\n2009-12-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bornbiculturalusa.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto Padron<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first time I heard that statement coming out of a family member\u2019s mouth, I was confused. In my mind, a violation of logic had occurred. After all, the person making this statement was blacker than the black hair on their head. I mean, this person is Black. Anyone with reasonable vision would agree. So what was meant by this apparently irrational statement made by an otherwise rational person?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI\u2019ve concluded it\u2019s a confusion of color (race) and culture (ethnicity). More specifically, an attempt to distance oneself from the term \u2018black\u2019 because of deeply seeded negative connotations associated with the word. This bothers me. The reasons for these unfair connotations will be discussed in a future blog entry.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSo let\u2019s address the basics. \u2018Black\u2019 refers to race. Culture refers to ethnicity. These terms often get confused. The moment we start hyphenating the term \u2018Black,\u2019 a clearer cultural picture begins to emerge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/bornbiculturalusa.com\/2009\/12\/29\/im-not-black-im-hispanic\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Not Black, I\u2019m Hispanic! Born Bicultural USA 2009-12-29 Alberto Padron The first time I heard that statement coming out of a family member\u2019s mouth, I was confused. In my mind, a violation of logic had occurred. After all, the person making this statement was blacker than the black hair on their head. I mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[13391,13390],"class_list":["post-27616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-alberto-padron","tag-born-bicultural-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616","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=27616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}