{"id":42270,"date":"2015-08-17T01:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42270"},"modified":"2015-08-17T01:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:36:32","slug":"im-a-mizrahi-jew-do-i-count-as-a-person-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42270","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Mizrahi Jew. Do I Count as a Person of Color?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/318667\/im-a-mizrahi-jew-do-i-count-as-a-person-of-color\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m a Mizrahi Jew. Do I Count as a Person of Color?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\" target=\"_blank\">Forward<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SigalSamuel\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sigal Samuel<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy Digital Media Editor<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/318667\/im-a-mizrahi-jew-do-i-count-as-a-person-of-color\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.forward.com\/images\/335x\/sigal-samuel-thumbnail-1439161274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><strong>Eye of the Beholder<\/strong>: Sigal Samuel has been considered white and non-white, depending on who&#8217;s looking. (Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/martynastarosta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martyna Starosta<\/a>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Am I a person of color?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think there would be a straightforward answer to a question like that. And for a while, I thought there was. I thought the answer was yes.<\/p>\n<p>When I look at my grandparents \u2014 four <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mizrahi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Mizrahim<\/a>, or Jews from Arab lands \u2014 I see people who were born in India and Iraq and Morocco, who grew up speaking Hindi and Arabic. When I stand in Sephora buying makeup, the shade I choose is closer to \u201cebony\u201d than to \u201cpetal.\u201d When I walk down the street, perfect strangers routinely stop me to ask: \u201cWhere are you from? Are you Persian? Indian? Arab? Latina?\u201d When I go through airport security, I always \u2014 always \u2014 get \u201crandomly selected\u201d for additional screening.<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty sure all this made me a person of color.<\/p>\n<p>And then an acquaintance, who is Jewish and African-American, told me in the course of a casual conversation that no, actually, I don\u2019t count&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/318667\/im-a-mizrahi-jew-do-i-count-as-a-person-of-color\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Mizrahi Jew. Do I Count as a Person of Color? Forward 2015-08-10 Sigal Samuel, Deputy Digital Media Editor Eye of the Beholder: Sigal Samuel has been considered white and non-white, depending on who&#8217;s looking. (Image: Martyna Starosta) Am I a person of color? You\u2019d think there would be a straightforward answer to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,33,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[20566,20712],"class_list":["post-42270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-census","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-forward","tag-sigal-samuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270","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=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42271,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions\/42271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}