{"id":35863,"date":"2014-02-17T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35863"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:19:53","slug":"who-gets-to-be-a-poc-self-identifying-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35863","title":{"rendered":"Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial\/ethnic movement<\/a>
\n2014-02-09<\/p>\n

Nicole Nfonoyim de Hara<\/strong><\/p>\n

This post is in response to a great question a friend asked about how the wonderful new book\u00a0(1)ne Drop:Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em><\/a> by Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a> and Noelle Th\u00e9ard<\/a>, featuring portraits of individuals who identify as “Black” speaks to an article entitled “4 Ways to Push Back on Your Privilege<\/a>” by one of my favorite bloggers, Mia McKenzie (aka Black Girl Dangerous). Many portraits in (1)ne Drop<\/em> may raise a few eyebrows. Take the portrait of ‘Zun Lee<\/a>‘ on the right. He says:<\/p>\n

“When I applied to grad school or for jobs, all of a sudden the boxes come up. I had to make a choice, so for the first time, I checked ‘Black.’ And I didn’t think long about it because for me, it was based on personal circumstance. I just chose the box that I felt most at home with because I didn’t relate to any of the other options. From then on, if I were asked, I would answer, ‘I’m Black.’ Of course, people told me I couldn’t do that \u2014 that I couldn’t choose that box. But I had spent all of my life being pushed away by people. In Germany, I wasn’t even given the option to check anything because I wasn’t welcomed there. I had no box. For the first time, I was being given the option to identify myself. Now I had a box, and I was happy in that little box.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it okay for Zun Lee to identify as black? He doesn’t self-identify in his quote as “Asian.” Should we, the viewers and readers see him and insist that he must be “Asian” or at the very least “not black?”…<\/p>\n

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

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