{"id":61308,"date":"2021-08-21T03:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61308"},"modified":"2021-08-21T03:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:46:35","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-latino-the-light-skinned-privilege-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61308","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean To Be Latino? The &#8216;Light-Skinned Privilege&#8217; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/21\/1008735322\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-latino-the-light-skinned-privilege-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>What Does It Mean To Be Latino? The &#8216;Light-Skinned Privilege&#8217; Edition<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/podcasts\/510312\/codeswitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code Switch<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2021-07-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/radiomirage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shereen Marisol Meraji<\/strong><\/a>, Co-host\/ Senior Producer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kukzandladders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kumari Devarajan<\/strong><\/a>, Producer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/AskLeezul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Leah Donnella<\/strong><\/a>, Editor<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maria_Hinojosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2021\/06\/21\/kquilesforcodeswitch_mariah-mariag_slide-74634dd2622c6947831dbd56c31ae918daf6b599-s1800-c85.webp\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maria_Hinojosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Hinojosa<\/a> (left) and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NopalitaMami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Garcia<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>Krystal Quiles for NPR<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1008735322\/1015853486\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NopalitaMami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Garcia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maria_Hinojosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Hinojosa<\/a> are both Mexican American, both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mestiza<\/a>, and both relatively light-skinned. But Maria Hinojosa strongly identifies as a woman of color, whereas Maria Garcia has stopped doing so. So in this episode, we&#8217;re asking: How did they arrive at such different places? To find out, listen to our latest installment in this series about what it means to be Latino.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story (00:37:15) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/21\/1008735322\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-latino-the-light-skinned-privilege-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Garcia and Maria Hinojosa are both Mexican American, both mestiza, and both relatively light-skinned. But Maria Hinojosa strongly identifies as a woman of color, whereas Maria Garcia has stopped doing so. So in this episode, we&#8217;re asking: How did they arrive at such different places?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,125,13743,14646,8,20],"tags":[14788,240,31755,23061,31539,19223,2309,2833,24619],"class_list":["post-61308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-colorism","tag-kumari-devarajan","tag-leah-donnella","tag-maria-garcia","tag-maria-hinojosa","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-shereen-marisol-meraji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61308","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=61308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61310,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61308\/revisions\/61310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}