{"id":49282,"date":"2016-10-02T00:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49282"},"modified":"2016-10-02T00:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T00:30:51","slug":"white-house-wants-to-add-new-racial-category-for-middle-eastern-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49282","title":{"rendered":"White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/09\/30\/white-house-wants-add-new-racial-category-middle-eastern-people\/91322064\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/2055\/gregory-korte\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gregory Korte<\/strong><\/a>, White House Reporter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USA TODAY - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/embed\/91386518\/?fullsite=true\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">WASHINGTON<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">The White House<\/a> is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MENA\" target=\"_blank\">Middle East and North Africa<\/a> under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-discrimination laws and health\u00a0research.<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, people from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_East\" target=\"_blank\">Middle East<\/a> are considered white, the legacy of century-old court rulings in which Syrian\u00a0Americans argued that they should not be considered Asian \u2014\u00a0because that designation would deny them citizenship under the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Exclusion_Act\" target=\"_blank\">1882 Chinese Exclusion Act<\/a>. But scholars and community leaders say more and more people with their roots in the Middle East find themselves caught between white, black and Asian classifications that don&#8217;t fully reflect their identities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/09\/30\/white-house-wants-add-new-racial-category-middle-eastern-people\/91322064\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people USA Today 2016-10-01 Gregory Korte, White House Reporter WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[25093,2346],"class_list":["post-49282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-gregory-korte","tag-usa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282","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=49282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49283,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49282\/revisions\/49283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}