{"id":51211,"date":"2017-01-16T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51211"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:25:58","slug":"i-think-its-important-to-recognize-that-to-be-latinx-is-to-be-hybrid-there-is-no-such-thing-as-purity-in-latinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51211","title":{"rendered":"I think it\u2019s important to recognize that to be Latinx is to be hybrid. There is no such thing as purity in Latinidad&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to recognize that to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#Terminology\" target=\"_blank\">Latinx<\/a> is to be hybrid. There is no such thing as purity in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latinidad\" target=\"_blank\">Latinidad<\/a>, if you even buy into this very American idea of Latinidad.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/nataliescenterszapico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Scenters-Zapico<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sebastian Hasani Paramo, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51151\" target=\"_blank\">A Conversation With Natalie Scenters-Zapico<\/a>,\u201d <em>The American Literary Review<\/em>, March 27, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanliteraryreview.com\/reviews--interviews\/a-conversation-with-natalie-scenters-zapico\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.americanliteraryreview.com\/reviews&#8211;interviews\/a-conversation-with-natalie-scenters-zapico<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to recognize that to be Latinx is to be hybrid. There is no such thing as purity in Latinidad, if you even buy into this very American idea of Latinidad.\u201d \u2014Natalie Scenters-Zapico Sebastian Hasani Paramo, \u201cA Conversation With Natalie Scenters-Zapico,\u201d The American Literary Review, March 27, 2016. http:\/\/www.americanliteraryreview.com\/reviews&#8211;interviews\/a-conversation-with-natalie-scenters-zapico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16577,25948,25978,25977],"class_list":["post-51211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-american-literary-review","tag-natalie-scenters-zapico","tag-sebastian-hasani-paramo","tag-the-american-literary-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51211","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=51211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51212,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51211\/revisions\/51212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}