{"id":29747,"date":"2013-03-21T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29747"},"modified":"2016-07-10T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T23:19:17","slug":"new-latin-american-pope-jorge-mario-bergoglio-not-a-person-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29747","title":{"rendered":"New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Amsterdam News<\/a>
\nNew York, New York
\n2013-03-21<\/p>\n

Courtenay Brown<\/strong>, Special to the AmNews<\/p>\n

The installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I<\/a> on March 13 caused a stir of questions regarding his race. Yes, he was the first pope from Latin America, but should he be considered the first pope of color?<\/p>\n

By definition, a \u201cperson of color\u201d is an all-encompassing, typically American term that categorizes non-whites, which include Asians, Indians, Native Americans, Blacks and Latinos.<\/p>\n

This classification may work in the U.S., but it does not function so well in Latin America. According to a study by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 31.4 percent of immigrants to Argentina came from Spain, while 44.9 percent came from Italy from 1857 to 1940. This helps quantify just how many immigrants came from these specific countries as opposed to other places in Europe.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis\u2019 own parents were immigrants to Argentina. Since the children of two Italian citizens are legally regarded as Italian no matter where they are born, according to Italian legal tradition, Pope Francis is technically regarded as Italian.<\/p>\n

According to Argentina native Martin Pereyra, a law student at the University of Buenos Aires, many Argentines would not identify as people of color because of the great deal of European influence in the country. The country is often even nicknamed the \u201cParis of South America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we have just one \u2018color,\u2019\u201d Pereyra said. \u201cBut at the same time, we are considered Latinos.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…So while prescribing to a single \u201crace\u201d is far from a universal concept for the Latino community, Ra\u00fal Hinojosa-Ojeda<\/a>, professor in the Ch\u00e1vez Department of Chicano\/a Studies at the University of Central Los Angeles (UCLA), believes that Bergoglio should be considered Latino and thus a person of color\u2014despite the pope\u2019s Italian roots. According to Hinojosa-Ojeda, using lineage to determine who is Latino would \u201celiminate a large part of Latin America and a lot of Latinos<\/strong>,\u201d he told LA Weekly<\/em> last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore important is the experience, not the genetic background<\/strong>,\u201d he continued…<\/p>\n

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

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