{"id":279,"date":"2018-04-15T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=279"},"modified":"2018-04-15T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:38:35","slug":"why-are-we-generalizing-everyone-into-black-brown-or-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/04\/15\/why-are-we-generalizing-everyone-into-black-brown-or-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we generalizing everyone into black, brown, or white?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why are we always trying to fit people into boxes? This is something that I have been thinking about. When a person is dark-skinned, we are quick to generalize them and call them black regardless if they are from the caribbean or even mixed of other ancestry. In Mississippi Masala, I was constantly confused with why the family of Demetrius kept referring to Mina as Mexican. \u00a0She had a brown complexion but that doesn&#8217;t call for her to be assumed as &#8220;mexican&#8221;. That is so wrong and racist. I guess this is how America is. There can&#8217;t be in between? It&#8217;s either you&#8217;re black, brown, or white. There is no in between. And if a person looks mixed, we are quick to ask them about their parent&#8217;s races and then broadly assume that mixed person to be one race over the other based on how they look like. So for example, if a mixed person has \u00a0one white and one black parents, they are assumed as black according to the one drop rule. I have always wondered though what a person would be called if one parent is latino and the other is black, since America loves to categorize people into one race over the other despite a person being mixed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are we always trying to fit people into boxes? This is something that I have been thinking about. When a person is dark-skinned, we are quick to generalize them and call them black regardless if they are from the caribbean or even mixed of other ancestry. In Mississippi Masala, I was constantly confused with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}