{"id":54647,"date":"2017-07-26T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54647"},"modified":"2017-07-26T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:25:02","slug":"pakistani-white-sindhi-canadian-black-what-do-you-identify-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54647","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani, white, Sindhi, Canadian, black: What do you identify as?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistani, white, Sindhi, Canadian, black: What do you identify as?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Express Tribune<\/a>
\nKarachi, Pakistan
\n2017-07-22<\/p>\n

Shanel Khaliq<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJazzmine Raine<\/a> mother is a third generation Canadian, with Irish, English, Scottish and Spanish bloodlines whereas her father is a second generation Canadian with an Antiguan father and St Lucian mother. PHOTO: KENDA AL YAKOB<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

With unprecedented levels of immigration, globalisation and the forced displacement of populations worldwide, the intermingling of races, cultures and ethnic groups may become the \u2018norm\u2019 in the decades to come. Many countries in the world are now host to a multiplicity of racial groups, particularly countries such as the US<\/a> and Canada<\/a>, due to their distinct historical path towards constructing a national identity.<\/p>\n

Ironically, over the years, phenomena such as racial profiling<\/a> have become even more widespread. Is this owed to the ever-changing global order, an increasingly narrow and stringent concept of national security, or is it simply age-old racism disguising itself in new clothes?<\/p>\n

In order to protect the purity of races historically, many parts of the world had anti-miscegenation<\/a> laws in place. The US is one good example where anti-miscegenation laws came under considerable heat for making interracial unions illegal. The \u2018one-drop rule<\/a>\u2019 also persisted in the country for a long time whereby anyone with a single Black ancestor would be considered Black…<\/p>\n

…In most parts of the Global North<\/a>, it is speculated to be the fastest growing group. Nonetheless, scholars such as Minelle Mahtani<\/a>, warn against the romanticisation of mixed race people<\/a> as the dawn of a new world since the racialization of bodies continues to persist and affect their experiences even in the Global North, and in a world where even the label \u2018mixed\u2019 inevitably evokes the idea of partial \u2018Whiteness\u2019 in popular imagination.<\/p>\n

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

With unprecedented levels of immigration, globalisation and the forced displacement of populations worldwide, the intermingling of races, cultures and ethnic groups may become the \u2018norm\u2019 in the decades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,19,125,8,394,10,20],"tags":[27364,27366,517,27367,27368,27365,27363],"class_list":["post-54647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-usa","tag-express-tribune","tag-jazzmine-raine","tag-minelle-mahtani","tag-sara-ayub","tag-sarah-michelle-qureshi","tag-shanel-khaliq","tag-the-express-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54647","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=54647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54649,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54647\/revisions\/54649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}