{"id":2211,"date":"2006-03-28T22:36:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/28\/response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T22:36:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T05:36:28","slug":"response-to-rachel-i-am-a-person-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Response to Rachel: &quot;I am a person of color&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/23\/can-we-find-a-better-term-for-marginalized-people\/\">an earlier post<\/a>, Rachel wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I also have to admit I don&#8217;t like the term people of color, and I used it reluctantly. (I also reluctantly use the terms biracial, Black, White, Asian American, Latino, and African American.) My problem with that term is threefold. First, the term is completely power neutral, and second it reinforces the racial language of color. I also keep thinking: are there people without color? Then, I wonder if the term reinforces the normativity of Whiteness and the notion that Whites are somehow raceless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nubian at Blac(k)academic has written <a href=\"http:\/\/blackademic.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/i-am-person-of-color-for-what-its.html\">a response to Rachel&#8217;s post<\/a>, focusing mostly on the above passage. Rather than trying to find a representative passage to quote, let me encourage &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers to head on over to Nubian&#8217;s blog, and read\/participate in the very interesting discussion there (which includes a response to Nubian from Rachel).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, Rachel wrote: I also have to admit I don&#8217;t like the term people of color, and I used it reluctantly. (I also reluctantly use the terms biracial, Black, White, Asian American, Latino, and African American.) My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}