{"id":32671,"date":"2013-08-02T04:46:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32671"},"modified":"2013-08-02T04:46:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T04:46:59","slug":"is-george-zimmerman-white-latino-or-mixed-race-depends-on-who-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32671","title":{"rendered":"Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/2013\/08\/01\/is-george-zimmerman-white-latino-or-mixed-race-depends-on-who-you-ask\/15177\" target=\"_blank\">Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World<\/a><br \/>\n2013-08-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/nishime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leilani Nishime<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Communications<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly two weeks since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_of_Florida_v._George_Zimmerman\" target=\"_blank\">George Zimmerman verdict was handed down<\/a>, and the conversations in my Facebook feed have shifted from outrage and sorrow to more nuanced discussions of the state of race in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these conversations have focused on Zimmerman\u2019s racial identity and, more recently, the identity of the lone \u201cnon-black\u201d juror.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman\u2019s mixed ethnicity has stirred up conversation about how much his race \u201ccounts\u201d: To what extent does he identify as Latino, and does it make a difference in how he saw himself and how he saw <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin<\/a>?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/2013\/08\/01\/is-george-zimmerman-white-latino-or-mixed-race-depends-on-who-you-ask\/15177\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask. The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-08-01 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington, Seattle It\u2019s been nearly two weeks since the George Zimmerman verdict was handed down, and the conversations in my Facebook feed have shifted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[10140,1985,13479,15027],"class_list":["post-32671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-george-zimmerman","tag-leilani-nishime","tag-the-seattle-globalist","tag-the-seattle-globalist-where-seattle-meets-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671","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=32671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}