{"id":44165,"date":"2015-11-23T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44165"},"modified":"2015-11-23T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:17:47","slug":"if-you-are-going-to-classify-me-as-white-then-treat-me-as-white-khalaf-said-especially-when-i-go-to-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44165","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf you are going to classify me as white, then treat [me] as white,\u201d Khalaf said. \u201cEspecially when I go to the airport&#8230;\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the past, \u201cwhite\u201d was the only racial option available to Arab American respondents, a classification that didn\u2019t truly reflect their social standing and hurt efforts for their political empowerment in post-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_11_attacks\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 11 America<\/a>, said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamerKhalaf\" target=\"_blank\">Samer Khalaf<\/a>, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are going to classify me as white, then treat [me] as white,\u201d Khalaf said. \u201cEspecially when I go to the airport. So, yeah, it\u2019s inaccurate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Associated Press, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44128\" target=\"_blank\">Census change may result in fewer \u2018white\u2019 Americans<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>, November 22, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-census-changes-20151122-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-census-changes-20151122-story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, \u201cwhite\u201d was the only racial option available to Arab American respondents, a classification that didn\u2019t truly reflect their social standing and hurt efforts for their political empowerment in post-Sept. 11 America, said Samer Khalaf, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. \u201cIf you are going to classify me as white, then treat [me] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2822,3909,21980,13272],"class_list":["post-44165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-associated-press","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-samer-khalaf","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44165","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=44165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44166,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44165\/revisions\/44166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}