{"id":38932,"date":"2014-12-17T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38932"},"modified":"2014-12-17T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:30:07","slug":"on-being-non-white-but-passing-terribly-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38932","title":{"rendered":"On Being Non-White, But Passing Terribly Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2014\/05\/non-white-passing-well\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>On Being Non-White, But Passing Terribly Well<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\" target=\"_blank\">Everyday Feminism<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia Gutierrez<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPsst\u2026 Hey, Patty! You speak Spanish? Ignoring me? Hey! You speak Spanish?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>P.E., third period, seventh grade.<\/p>\n<p>Every time Ricardo saw me, he would ask me the same question.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I would answer yes, but he would always get me back with a \u201cNah, prove it. Say something.\u201d I never did.<\/p>\n<p>I would often imagine myself yelling, <em>\u201c\u00a1Que s\u00ed, g\u00fcey! \u00bfYa cu\u00e1ntas veces te tengo que decir, pues? Pinche metiche,\u201d<\/em> but in reality, my face would blush and my hands would sweat in frustration such so that I\u2019d slip while trying to do a pushup.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped talking to most kids at school when I moved to a new district at five (also when I was given a \u201cnew\u201d name by my white teacher who pronounced it wrong; I didn\u2019t have the voice to correct anyone until two years ago), and I didn\u2019t really start again until high school. I wasn\u2019t going to open up for Ricardo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But Ricardo wasn\u2019t the first person to demand proof, to demand to know why my last name and my appearance didn\u2019t make sense to them<\/strong> (<em>\u201cPues, es que mi familia es de Nayarit y Jalisco.\u201d \u201cAaah, bueno, por eso.\u201d<\/em>), and he wouldn\u2019t be the last&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2014\/05\/non-white-passing-well\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Being Non-White, But Passing Terribly Well Everyday Feminism 2014-05-08 Patricia Gutierrez Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania \u201cPsst\u2026 Hey, Patty! You speak Spanish? Ignoring me? Hey! You speak Spanish?\u201d P.E., third period, seventh grade. Every time Ricardo saw me, he would ask me the same question. At first, I would answer yes, but he would always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,14646,6462,20],"tags":[18780,18779],"class_list":["post-38932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-everyday-feminism","tag-patricia-gutierrez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38932","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=38932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}