{"id":58886,"date":"2019-09-17T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58886"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:03:19","slug":"im-not-even-going-to-go-into-the-whole-passing-as-white-thing-because-im-not-passing-as-white-i-am-white-latinx-is-an-ethnicity-not-a-race-and-yes-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58886","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not even going to go into the whole \u201cpassing as white\u201d thing, because I\u2019m not passing as white, I am white, Latinx is an ethnicity, not a race, \u2013 and yes, there are some white Latinos, and some black Latinos and hell, even Asian Latinos, that\u2019s the whole point of ethnicity not race&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m not even going to go into the whole \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing as white<\/a>\u201d thing, because I\u2019m not passing as white, I am white, Latinx is an ethnicity, not a race, \u2013 and yes, there are some white Latinos, and some black Latinos and hell, even Asian Latinos, that\u2019s the whole point of ethnicity not race \u2013 because this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnival_Row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Carnival Row<\/em><\/a> piece, and I have a point, I promise.<\/p>\n<p>My point is this: Philo can \u201cpass\u201d as human. In fact, that is basically what he does for most of the time we see him, pass as something he is not: full human. While other creatures are discriminated because of who they are, Philo \u2013 both by choice, and as a result of a cruelty done on him as a child \u2013 can pass, and by doing so, benefits from the privilege afforded to the people who make the rules.<\/p>\n<p>The humans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lissete Lanuza S\u00e1enz, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Carnival Row\u2019: Philo and the Politics of Passing<\/a>,<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> <em>Fangirlish<\/em>, September 11, 2019. <a href=\"http:\/\/fangirlish.com\/carnival-row-philo-and-the-politics-of-passing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/fangirlish.com\/carnival-row-philo-and-the-politics-of-passing\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not even going to go into the whole \u201cpassing as white\u201d thing, because I\u2019m not passing as white, I am white, Latinx is an ethnicity, not a race, \u2013 and yes, there are some white Latinos, and some black Latinos and hell, even Asian Latinos, that\u2019s the whole point of ethnicity not race \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30262,30260],"class_list":["post-58886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-carnival-row","tag-lissete-lanuza-saenz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886","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=58886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58887,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions\/58887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}