{"id":47606,"date":"2016-06-13T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47606"},"modified":"2017-05-04T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T02:15:43","slug":"the-changing-face-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47606","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Face of Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Changing Face of Whiteness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Truthout<\/a>
\n2016-06-05<\/p>\n

William C. Anderson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When Guido Menzio<\/a> sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia<\/a> to Syracuse, New York<\/a>, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem. The differential equation he was working on was possibly mistaken for terrorist scrawlings<\/a> by the nervous passenger next to him, who was concerned that Menzio wasn’t polite enough, looked<\/em> suspicious and was too distracted by his foreign scribblings.<\/p>\n

After delaying the flight and profiling Menzio, the media would soon report on the “Ivy League economist” who was “ethnically profiled<\/a>” for doing math on a plane. Focal points of this story were Menzio’s whiteness as an Italian and his stature as an Ivy League<\/a> economist — both of which should assure him no suspicion from authorities, unless he should be mistaken for a person of color. Amid the reverberating outcry around Menzio’s treatment, the fact that no one should be treated that way may have gotten lost. After all, the passenger followed what is protocol for many; she saw something and she said something. But what is it she saw? She saw someone she was scared of and someone who was possibly not white…<\/p>\n

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When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,394,20],"tags":[24075,18966,1186,24074],"class_list":["post-47606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-guido-menzio","tag-truthout","tag-whiteness","tag-william-c-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47606","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=47606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53776,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47606\/revisions\/53776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}