{"id":55222,"date":"2017-11-20T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55222"},"modified":"2017-11-20T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:40:15","slug":"for-one-year-all-the-south-asians-in-the-us-were-considered-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55222","title":{"rendered":"For one year, all the South Asians in the US were considered \u201cwhite\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

For one year, all the South Asians in the US were considered \u201cwhite\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Quartz<\/a>
\n2017-09-02<\/p>\n

Preeti Varathan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nStand and be counted. (AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

The history of classifying South Asians in the United States<\/a> is fraught. For most of the 20th century, the census and courts did not consider South Asians as a distinct race, in part because their numbers were negligible. In 1970, the US census decided South Asians were white.<\/p>\n

Racially designating South Asians, especially from the Indian subcontinent<\/a>, is complicated. India<\/a> is home to more than 2,000 ethnic groups<\/a>. In the early 1900s, scholars believed<\/a> that a major ancestral group, the Aryans, migrated to the subcontinent from Europe<\/a>. They indisputably integrated into Indian culture\u2014the Mahabharata<\/a><\/em>, one of the most well-known ancient Indian epics<\/a>, tells the story of Aryan warriors who fought among their families for political and spiritual legitimacy. They grouped into an elite, fair-skinned class, possibly explaining the diversity in skin tones of Indians today.<\/p>\n

So what happened in 1970? Let\u2019s go back to 1919…<\/p>\n

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

The history of classifying South Asians in the United States is fraught. For most of the 20th century, the census and courts did not consider South Asians as a distinct race, in part because their numbers were negligible. In 1970, the US census decided South Asians were white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,33,8],"tags":[1351,27674,19497],"class_list":["post-55222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-census","category-media-archive","tag-india","tag-preeti-varathan","tag-quartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55222","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=55222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55223,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55222\/revisions\/55223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}