{"id":9815,"date":"2010-10-29T21:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2011-06-15T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T23:38:53","slug":"everyone-looks-a-little-bit-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9815","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/everyone_looks_a_little_bit_asian_20101027\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\" target=\"_blank\">truthdig<\/a>: drilling beneath the headlines<br \/>\n2010-10-27<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marciadawkins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/everyone_looks_a_little_bit_asian_20101027\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/truthdig_masthead.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I\u2019ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination\u2014from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American.<\/p>\n<p>This guessing game is something members of Generation E.A. are used to in discussions with acquaintances, classmates, co-workers and curious passersby. Sometimes it\u2019s even educational. But this is never something one would expect to hear from a politician, particularly a politician addressing the Hispanic Student Union at Rancho High School in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Las_Vegas,_Nevada\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas, Nev<\/a>. Yet this is exactly what happened when Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada, told a group of students that she did not know if the brown border crossers featured in her \u201cBest Friend\u201d commercial were all Hispanic because \u201csome of you look a little more Asian to me.\u201d She continued, \u201cWhat we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I\u2019m evidence of that. I\u2019ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But the most recent confusing remarks about race and ethnicity are different because they serve a unique purpose. They provide an opportunity to open dialogue in a campaign season that has been more focused on economics than on ethnicity. Could it be that the two are connected?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interesting thing about Angle\u2019s version of racial and ethnic talk is that it is more focused on Hispanic issues than on the traditional black-white paradigm,\u201d according to professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulliryder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulli K. Ryder<\/a> of Brown University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Departments\/Race_Ethnicity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America<\/a>. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening here is that Hispanics and Asians are being compared and confused because they both equal foreign in the U.S. racial imagination.\u201d <strong>So, Angle is saying that these two foreign groups can melt and look alike, but that they will never look like Americans..<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/everyone_looks_a_little_bit_asian_20101027\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone Looks a Little Bit Asian truthdig: drilling beneath the headlines 2010-10-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Like many other Hispanics, I am a member of Generation E.A. (ethnically ambiguous). Over the years I\u2019ve been mistaken for just about every racial or ethnic combination\u2014from Eurasian to Afro-Irish to Arab-Native American. This guessing game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,6,26,394,20],"tags":[3083,2408,2406,4275,4274,3681,6543,3682],"class_list":["post-9815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-sharron-angle","tag-truthdig","tag-ulli-k-ryder","tag-ulli-kira-ryder","tag-ulli-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","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=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}