{"id":44789,"date":"2015-12-25T04:01:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T04:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44789"},"modified":"2015-12-25T04:01:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T04:01:35","slug":"blackness-does-not-have-to-solely-mean-african-american-and-whiteness-does-not-have-to-solely-mean-anglo-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44789","title":{"rendered":"Blackness does not have to solely mean African-American and Whiteness does not have to solely mean Anglo-white."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>White Latinos need to own up to their Whiteness because we just can\u2019t continue to afford this to continue any further. We also need African-Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinorebels.com\/2015\/08\/05\/blackface-brownface-and-black-lives-matter-in-latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">to understand<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\">Latin America<\/a> has over 200 million Afro-descendants and that going to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a> also entails going to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\">Colombia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\">Cuba<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerto_Rico\" target=\"_blank\">Puerto Rico<\/a>, among other countries.\u00a0Blackness does not have to solely mean African-American and Whiteness does not have to solely mean Anglo-white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wiliam Garcia, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44785\" target=\"_blank\">White Latino Racism on the Rise: It\u2019s Time for a Serious Conversation on Euro-Diasporic Whiteness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Latino Rebels<\/em>, December 21, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinorebels.com\/2015\/12\/21\/white-latino-racism-on-the-rise-its-time-for-a-serious-conversation-on-euro-diasporic-whiteness\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.latinorebels.com\/2015\/12\/21\/white-latino-racism-on-the-rise-its-time-for-a-serious-conversation-on-euro-diasporic-whiteness\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Latinos need to own up to their Whiteness because we just can\u2019t continue to afford this to continue any further. We also need African-Americans to understand that Latin America has over 200 million Afro-descendants and that going to Africa also entails going to Colombia, Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico, among other countries.\u00a0Blackness does not [&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":[17998,22413],"class_list":["post-44789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-latino-rebels","tag-wiliam-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789","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=44789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44790,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789\/revisions\/44790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}