{"id":55606,"date":"2018-01-28T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55606"},"modified":"2018-01-28T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T03:13:12","slug":"im-white-and-latina-is-that-a-problem-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55606","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m White And Latina, Is That A Problem For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/lifestyle\/our-issues\/im-white-and-latina-problem-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>I&#8217;m White And Latina, Is That A Problem For You?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latina<\/a><br \/>\n2018-01-18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tess Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/lifestyle\/our-issues\/im-white-and-latina-problem-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/sites\/default\/files\/screen_shot_2018-01-18_at_3.49.07_pm.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Tess Garcia<\/small><\/p>\n<p>My mom is white. My dad is white. I am white, and I am Latina\u2026I think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Argentina<\/a> is largely populated by the descendants of white colonists, who came surging in during the late 19th century. According to a 2009 study, the country\u2019s population is approximately 78.5 percent European. That explains how my dad, who was born in the Argentine city of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunuy%C3%A1n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tunuy\u00e1n<\/a>, melds perfectly into the largely Caucasian community he\u2019s spent most of his life in, the one where he raised my siblings and I.<\/p>\n<p>Add a red-haired American mother to the equation, and you\u2019ve got some very, very white kids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/lifestyle\/our-issues\/im-white-and-latina-problem-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom is white. My dad is white. I am white, and I am Latina\u2026I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,14646,8,20],"tags":[676,19350,27961],"class_list":["post-55606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-argentina","tag-latina","tag-tess-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55606","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=55606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55607,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55606\/revisions\/55607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}