{"id":55422,"date":"2017-12-22T19:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55422"},"modified":"2017-12-22T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:29:38","slug":"feminism-101-what-is-white-passing-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55422","title":{"rendered":"Feminism 101: What is White Passing Privilege?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feminism 101: What is White Passing Privilege?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

FEM Magazine<\/a>
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles
\n2017-12-16<\/p>\n

Catherine Pham<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDesign by Jennifer Dodge<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Racial passing<\/a> is when someone\u2019s features cause them to be mistaken for another racial or ethnic group. Depend on what race or ethnicity people pass as, they can experience different treatment which can be advantageous or detrimental. White passing privilege is the additional privilege<\/a> some people of color (POC) are afforded when their features, such as skin color or hair texture, cause them to be mistaken as white. For instance, white passing Latinx<\/a> people will most likely avoid being racially profiled, questioned about their citizenship or lack thereof, or doubted for their English-speaking skills or education status. Prominent actors of color like Rashida Jones<\/a>, and Keanu Reeves<\/a> tend to be white passing \u2014 because their white appearances allow them to get larger, more multidimensional roles rather than being typecast<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

However, white passing privilege is not the same as white privilege. People who are white passing are considered so because they contradict the narrow racial stereotypes perpetuated by white people, and, as Niloufar Haidari notes, these \u201cborders of whiteness are policed often in self-interest rather than out of genuine attempts by inclusivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,20],"tags":[27868,240,25518,27867],"class_list":["post-55422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-catherine-pham","tag-colorism","tag-fem","tag-fem-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422","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=55422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55423,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422\/revisions\/55423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}