{"id":36739,"date":"2014-06-19T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36739"},"modified":"2014-06-19T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:17:03","slug":"latinos-and-whiteness-on-being-sold-an-empty-white-privilege-knapsack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36739","title":{"rendered":"Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Race-work, Race-love<\/a>
\n2014-06-13<\/p>\n

Blanca E. Vega<\/strong><\/a> (@BlancaVNYC<\/a>), writer, educator, and race-worker<\/p>\n

Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u202a@BlancaVNYC <\/a>: and yep \u202a#nuncamas<\/a>. this <\/em>[choosing White on the Census] has haunted\/shaped my life, and used against me, and I\u2019m just done with it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To read more of the conversation, click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For many Latinos in the U.S., race is still an elusive and misunderstood concept. This is due to many reasons but primarily for this one: Latinos have been taught that we are not a race, that instead, we are an ethnicity, and therefore have the ability\/privilege to dodge the race question altogether.<\/p>\n

The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line \u2013 W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For Latinos, the race question on a Census is confused for the color question. For the 2000 Census, even Latinos who were unmistakably White, Black, Native, or Asian, could pick \u201cOther\u201d. In 2010, \u201cOther\u201d was no longer available for Latinos, thus, forcing them to choose (what many confuse) \u201cColor\u201d for \u201cRace\u201d \u2013 and there is a difference, one that is often never unpacked for Latinos.<\/p>\n

So, if the problem is the color line, then where do Latinos, who are taught \u201cthey have no race\u201d fit in this now 21st century problem?…<\/p>\n

…Latinos should remember that while some of us have privileges associated with Whiteness, this is not White Privilege. However, the only way we can understand our own racialization is to identify those areas in which some of us benefit from White Supremacy and where we don\u2019t \u2013 a category Eduardo Bonilla Silva<\/a> calls \u201chonorary white\u201d \u2013 and attack those areas if we are truly in the business of killing White Supremacy. This provides a more nuanced understanding of Latinidad, Latinization of race, and the racialization of Latinos, more so than the frames we inherited….<\/p>\n

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

Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack Race-work, Race-love 2014-06-13 Blanca E. Vega (@BlancaVNYC), writer, educator, and race-worker Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad: \u201c\u202a@BlancaVNYC : and yep \u202a#nuncamas. this [choosing White on the Census] has haunted\/shaped my life, and used against me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[17535,17536,17534],"class_list":["post-36739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-blanca-e-vega","tag-blanca-vega","tag-race-work-race-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739","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=36739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}