{"id":53785,"date":"2017-05-04T02:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T02:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53785"},"modified":"2017-05-04T02:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T02:54:42","slug":"should-i-get-a-pet-from-a-no-kill-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53785","title":{"rendered":"Should I Get a Pet From a No-Kill Shelter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should I Get a Pet From a No-Kill Shelter?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Ethicist<\/a>
\nThe New York Times Magazine<\/a>
\n2017-04-26<\/p>\n

Kwame Anthony Appiah<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Philosophy, Law
\nNew York University<\/em><\/p>\n

…My mother is from Central America<\/a>. She came to the United States<\/a> for college and met my American father. I am, therefore, 50 percent Latino genetically, but I don\u2019t identify as Latino. There were (to my regret) no Central American influences in my upbringing \u2014 no Spanish language, no Latino relatives, no foods from \u201cthe old country.\u201d There was also no discrimination directed at me or my mother (we look \u201cwhite\u201d). Is it ethical to identify as Latino in social situations and on the census?<\/em> Name Withheld<\/p>\n

Our ethnic and racial categories drape loosely around the realities of our complex lives. I am the son of an English woman and a Ghanaian man. I am an American citizen. Am I a black American? African-American? Anglo-American? Anglo-African? \u201cLatino\u201d is a word that hovers uneasily between a category defined by culture and one defined by descent. The latter conception makes you Latino. The former doesn\u2019t quite. There\u2019s also a notion that ethnicity should be defined by your own sense of identity \u2014 by whether you think of yourself as Latino. But whether you think of yourself as Latino is shaped by ideas about culture and descent. There isn\u2019t a single correct view about that. Still, here\u2019s a solution: In cases in which you don\u2019t have the time or space to explain your situation, probably the least confusing thing to say to people in the United States is that your mother is Latina. (As far as forms go, if they permit you to check two boxes, I\u2019d do that. If they don\u2019t, I don\u2019t believe it matters much what you do.).<\/p>\n

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

Our ethnic and racial categories drape loosely around the realities of our complex lives. I am the son of an English woman and a Ghanaian man. I am an American citizen. Am I a black American? African-American? Anglo-American? Anglo-African?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,6941,20],"tags":[1708,2640,8894,22839,2327,13109],"class_list":["post-53785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-usa","tag-kwame-anthony-appiah","tag-new-york-times","tag-new-york-times-magazine","tag-the-ethicist","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53785","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=53785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53787,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53785\/revisions\/53787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}