{"id":44635,"date":"2015-12-19T23:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44635"},"modified":"2015-12-19T23:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T23:47:37","slug":"do-white-passing-people-of-color-have-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44635","title":{"rendered":"Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2015\/09\/white-passing-poc-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\" target=\"_blank\">Everyday Feminism<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-07<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marinashutup\" target=\"_blank\">Marina Watanabe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uPLjYd9dlew?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m going to be answering a question from one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/marinashutup?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon<\/a> patrons (which sounds really redundant) about being a person of color who happens to be white-passing.<\/p>\n<p>Before I start this, I want to explain the concept of white-passing. It basically means what it sounds like. It\u2019s when you\u2019re a person of color, whether that be Asian, Native American, black or mixed raced and other people perceive you, either some of the time or all of the time as white.<\/p>\n<p>The question I received is from a person named Susie. She actually has a channel on YouTube which I\u2019m going to link below. She titled her question \u201cPassing Privilege\u201d and she said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am half Native Alaskan and half white but since I look mostly white, I am constantly told by strangers, specifically non-Natives, that I am not Native. It\u2019s a weird concept. I know you\u2019ve talked about it before in a video but is it the same with Asian culture? With Native culture you can be extremely cultural but if you don\u2019t have dark skin, you aren\u2019t really \u2018Native.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who is half Asian and half white, I totally feel you on this. One of the weirdest things I\u2019ve noticed about being on YouTube is that typically in my everyday life, a lot of people read me as Asian or Japanese but then on the internet when I make videos, they assume that I\u2019m white much more often&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2015\/09\/white-passing-poc-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege? Everyday Feminism 2015-09-07 Marina Watanabe Today I\u2019m going to be answering a question from one of my Patreon patrons (which sounds really redundant) about being a person of color who happens to be white-passing. Before I start this, I want to explain the concept of white-passing. It basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,6462,842],"tags":[18780,22299],"class_list":["post-44635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-videos","tag-everyday-feminism","tag-marina-watanabe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44635","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=44635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44636,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44635\/revisions\/44636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}