{"id":43972,"date":"2015-11-16T02:42:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43972"},"modified":"2015-11-16T02:42:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:42:30","slug":"im-white-in-barcelona-but-in-los-angeles-im-hispanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43972","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I&#8217;m Hispanic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-10-28\/im-white-barcelona-los-angeles-im-hispanic\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I&#8217;m Hispanic?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\" target=\"_blank\">Public Radio International<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbc_gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jaime Gonzalez<\/strong><\/a>, BBC World Service Journalist<br \/>\n<em>Los Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/node\/85249\/embedded\" width=\"320\" height=\"75\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not white, where are you from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is how I was greeted a few months ago by a young Black man I interviewed in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> for a story I was working on.<\/p>\n<p>Having lived in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> for more than six years, the question did not surprise me, as it was not the first time I had to answer it.<\/p>\n<p>I was born and raised in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barcelona\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>, \u200b\u200bin northeast <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spain\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>, and although I had never given much thought to this matter, I always thought I was white. With dark Mediterranean features, but white.<\/p>\n<p>How else could I define myself if someone asked me about my race?<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, I moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miami\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a> and soon I became aware of the deep racial divide that still exists in this country.<\/p>\n<p>In America, the definition of what being white means is much more limited than in Spain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-10-28\/im-white-barcelona-los-angeles-im-hispanic\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Listen to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/node\/85249\/popout\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/cdn.pri.org\/sites\/default\/files\/segment-audio\/10282015_02.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I&#8217;m Hispanic? Public Radio International 2015-10-27 Jaime Gonzalez, BBC World Service Journalist Los Angeles, California &#8220;You&#8217;re not white, where are you from?&#8221; This is how I was greeted a few months ago by a young Black man I interviewed in Los Angeles for a story I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2850,28,14646,8,394,20],"tags":[21897,16382,7162,892],"class_list":["post-43972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-audio","category-europe","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-jaime-gonzalez","tag-pri","tag-public-radio-international","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43972","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=43972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43973,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43972\/revisions\/43973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}