{"id":49744,"date":"2016-11-03T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49744"},"modified":"2016-11-03T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:56:11","slug":"how-do-you-become-white-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49744","title":{"rendered":"How do you become \u201cwhite\u201d in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you become \u201cwhite\u201d in America?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Correspondent<\/a>
\nSeptember 2016<\/p>\n

Sarah Kendzior<\/strong><\/a>, Flyover Country Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAn immigrant family looks out over the New York<\/a> skyline as they arrive in the U.S.<\/a> from Germany<\/a> aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam<\/a>. Photo by Getty<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Trump<\/a> has retweeted white supremacist groups and has the backing of the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>. He uses whiteness as a weapon, and his candidacy on a major party ticket threatens to put the country back some 200 years. What does Trump\u2019s vision of whiteness mean for a diverse country like the U.S.?<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 1790, the U.S. has taken a census that divides citizens into racial categories<\/a>. These categories have transformed dramatically over the past 220 years along with U.S. demography. In 1790, there were three categories: \u201cfree whites\u201d, \u201cother free people\u201d, and \u201cslaves.\u201d Over the next few centuries, new groups were added ranging from broad racial categories (\u201cAsian\u201d) to subsets (\u201cKorean\u201d, for example, was added as its own race in 1920, removed in 1950, re-added in 1970, and subsumed into \u201cAsian\u201d in 2000.)<\/p>\n

The most recent census, taken in 2010, divided Americans as follows: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or Some Other Race. In 1980, as a result of a huge increase in the Hispanic population, \u2018Hispanic\u2019 (or Latino, often the preferred term) was added as its own category, with a note that it is an ethnicity, not a race…<\/p>\n

…Being white in the U.S. has long meant better jobs and opportunities, and an escape from persecution based on appearance and culture. Although these structural advantages remain, the meaning of whiteness is still hotly debated \u2013 particularly during this election season…<\/p>\n

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

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