{"id":9718,"date":"2010-10-22T01:27:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T01:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9718"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:56:27","slug":"video-from-angle-event-reopens-subject-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9718","title":{"rendered":"Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/20\/us\/politics\/20race.html\" target=\"_blank\">Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<br \/>\n<\/a>2010-10-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Saulny<\/strong>, National Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eighthgeneration.com\/index.php\/content\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louie Gong<\/a>, a 36-year-old Seattle resident who is a mix of American Indian, white and Chinese, is often mistaken for Latino.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people don\u2019t look at me and say \u2018Chinese,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cThen I tell them what my heritage is, and they argue with me, saying, \u2018No, you look Hispanic.\u2019 That\u2019s offensive on a whole other level\u2014it\u2019s like their sensibility of racial aesthetics trumps my 36 years of life experience, and the fact that my last name is Gong.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Further complicating the role of race is that a growing number of Americans are identifying themselves as racial mixtures that can be difficult to categorize based on looks alone.<\/strong> Beyond that, some members of minorities are pushing back against anyone who wants to tell them what race they are, then stereotype them, whether Asian or Latino or black or some combination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are more complex than our phenotype,\u201d said Mr. Gong, the past president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavinfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mavin<\/a>, an advocacy group for mixed-race families, and the co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedheritagecenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Heritage Center<\/a>, an information clearinghouse. <strong>\u201cPeople have the right to self-identify in this country, on the census or in personal actions.\u201d&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/20\/us\/politics\/20race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video From Angle Event Reopens Subject of Race New York Times 2010-10-19 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Louie Gong, a 36-year-old Seattle resident who is a mix of American Indian, white and Chinese, is often mistaken for Latino. \u201cMost people don\u2019t look at me and say \u2018Chinese,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cThen I tell them what my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,394,20],"tags":[2077,4216,2327],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-louie-gong","tag-susan-saulny","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718","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=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43577,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions\/43577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}