{"id":64223,"date":"2023-03-19T03:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64223"},"modified":"2023-03-21T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:43:40","slug":"i-am-latino-i-am-also-white-why-a-latino-of-mixed-ancestry-struggles-each-time-he-fills-out-a-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64223","title":{"rendered":"‘I Am Latino, I Am Also White’: Why A Latino Of Mixed Ancestry Struggles Each Time He Fills Out A Form"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I Am Latino, I Am Also White’: Why A Latino Of Mixed Ancestry Struggles Each Time He Fills Out A Form<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

LAist<\/a>
\n2020-12-06<\/p>\n

Thomas Lopez<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At a Rose Parade<\/a> float display, Thomas Lopez compares profiles with our first president<\/a>. (Courtesy of Thomas Lopez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Mr. Lopez, we need you to turn in the form declaring your son’s race,” said the administrator from my son’s school.<\/p>\n

In second grade, we transferred him to LAUSD<\/a> from his parochial school and filed the necessary stack of paperwork, save one form. That was the statement of racial identity.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t intentional, just an honest mistake. But it wasn’t one the school would easily overlook. They called my wife and me individually to obtain the form.<\/p>\n

Completing this form was not easy. My son is multiracial — Black, white and Native American. I too am multiracial white and Latino. My wife and I are Mexican American…<\/p>\n

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

To this day, you will find no official data on persons like me of mixed Latino and non-Latino identity. I’ve coined the term “LOMA” for Latinx of Mixed Ancestry to describe this community. Some studies suggest that as many as a quarter of Latino-identified people in this country could actually identify as LOMA if given the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,33,125,14646,20],"tags":[455,31668,787,12379,12378,4220],"class_list":["post-64223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-latino","category-usa","tag-california","tag-laist","tag-los-angeles","tag-masc","tag-multiracial-americans-of-southern-california","tag-thomas-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64223","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=64223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64228,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64223\/revisions\/64228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}