{"id":49233,"date":"2016-09-28T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49233"},"modified":"2016-09-28T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:17:39","slug":"opinion-white-spaces-are-everywhere-including-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49233","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: \u201cWhite spaces\u201d are everywhere \u2013 including ARC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcurrent.com\/opinion\/2016\/09\/26\/opinion-white-spaces-are-everywhere-including-arc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Opinion: \u201cWhite spaces\u201d are everywhere \u2013 including ARC<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcurrent.com\" target=\"_blank\">The American River Current<\/a><br \/>\nSacramento, California<br \/>\n2016-09-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shiavon-chatman-783aa182\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Shiavon Chatman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine being alone in a place where there was no one who looked like you or understood your experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine having a conversation with someone who assumed the actions and behaviors of people who looked like you and made predictions about the way you conducted yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Being a person of color in a predominantly \u201cwhite space\u201d is similar to this.<\/p>\n<p>Author <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toni_Morrison\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Morrison<\/a> addresses this very idea of oppression and loneliness that comes with being racially stereotyped in her first novel entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bluest_Eye\" target=\"_blank\">The Bluest Eye<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her novel, the main character Pecola is \u201c(the) little black girl who want(s) to rise up out of her pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of \u201ccolorblindness\u201d doesn\u2019t exist. No matter how progressive and accepting a person is, they will see color.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing color, or rather, race and ethnicity, is being consciously aware of the social injustices and stereotypes that people of color experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arc.losrios.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">American River College<\/a> [(ARC)]\u00a0student Alyssa Senna said \u201cI feel like there\u2019s a stereotype for all people of color and that\u2019s how white people see us.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The stigma of being a person of color in predominantly white spaces has the same level of intensity for mixed people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel almost like an alien at times,\u201d said ARC student, Sade Butler, \u201cbecause I\u2019m black, white, and Filipino and I\u2019m of a medium complexion, (so) a lot of people don\u2019t see me as a person of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mixed people typically experience more privilege, referred to as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>\u201d, than non-mixed people of color, except in predominantly \u201cwhite spaces.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcurrent.com\/opinion\/2016\/09\/26\/opinion-white-spaces-are-everywhere-including-arc\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: \u201cWhite spaces\u201d are everywhere \u2013 including ARC The American River Current Sacramento, California 2016-09-26 Shiavon Chatman Imagine being alone in a place where there was no one who looked like you or understood your experiences. Imagine having a conversation with someone who assumed the actions and behaviors of people who looked like you and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,8,6462,20],"tags":[9812,25065,25063,25062,25067,25066,25064,25061,1240],"class_list":["post-49233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-alyssa-senna","tag-american-river-college","tag-american-river-current","tag-preet-kaur","tag-sade-butler","tag-shiavon-chatman","tag-the-american-river-current","tag-toni-morrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233","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=49233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49236,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233\/revisions\/49236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}