{"id":45152,"date":"2016-01-18T02:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45152"},"modified":"2016-01-18T02:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T02:50:53","slug":"whos-hispanic-whos-filipino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45152","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Hispanic? Who\u2019s Filipino?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s Hispanic? Who\u2019s Filipino?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Multiracial Activist: Covering news of interest to multiracial individuals and interracial couples since 1997.<\/a>
\n2016-01-15<\/p>\n

Emily Monroy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A few years ago, I wrote an essay called \u2018Who\u2019s White?<\/a>\u2019 I asked this question about several individuals, both famous (controversial shooter George Zimmerman<\/a>) and not-so-famous (two boyfriends of mine). I ended the piece by discussing whether my daughter, who is part American Indian on her father\u2019s side (he\u2019s from Nicaragua<\/a>), would be considered White or not. Conclusion: maybe, maybe not.<\/p>\n

Since then, a few new developments have occurred. Members of a Scandinavian club whose events I occasionally attend seem to think that my daughter looks Italian \u2013 which doesn\u2019t surprise me because both her father and I have some ancestry from Italy. I wasn\u2019t so prepared, though, when at least two people asked me if my daughter was part-Filipino (both were Filipino themselves, incidentally). In one case, the question came after I mentioned that my daughter had a Spanish last name from her father: having been under Spain\u2019s rule for more than 300 years, most surnames in the Philippines<\/a> are Spanish. One of my daughter\u2019s surnames is Ramos, the name of the Philippines\u2019 12th president. In the other instance, a man working at my daughter\u2019s school thought she might be Filipino because of her eyes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll concede that my daughter could probably \u2018pass<\/a>\u2019 as a Filipino mestiza<\/a><\/em> (Spanish word used in Latin America<\/a> and the Philippines for a woman of mixed racial origins). These exchanges also got me asking my own questions: How Spanish are Filipinos? Are they an Asian people who just happen to have Spanish names? Or are they, like most of the inhabitants of Spanish America, all mestizo?…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s Hispanic? Who\u2019s Filipino? The Multiracial Activist: Covering news of interest to multiracial individuals and interracial couples since 1997. 2016-01-15 Emily Monroy A few years ago, I wrote an essay called \u2018Who\u2019s White?\u2019 I asked this question about several individuals, both famous (controversial shooter George Zimmerman) and not-so-famous (two boyfriends of mine). I ended the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8],"tags":[22664,2968,22665],"class_list":["post-45152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","tag-emily-monroy","tag-the-multiracial-activist","tag-the-multiracial-activist-covering-news-of-interest-to-multiracial-individuals-and-interracial-couples-since-1997"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152","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=45152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45153,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45152\/revisions\/45153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}