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Socially Constructed Multi-Racial Identities - Asiatic, Melungeon and Nuyorican
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In an age of mash-ups why would one’s race be any different? Society today is made up of multi-racial folks - diversity is the wordof the day - and now we’ve got the lingo to address just about any mix you can think of. Black + Asian becomes ‘Blasian’, Hawaiin blood mixed with another race is sometimes referred to as ‘Hapa’, as Filipino mixed with another race, can be called ‘Mestiso’. It’s all very interesting and confusing making it that much easier to make a major ‘faux pas’ if you accidentally use the wrong terminology. Not to mention controversial - when Tiger Woods called himself ‘Cablanasian’ he created quite a ruckus in the black community. In the end, no matter term you decide to use, it doesn’t change the fact that we’re all just people. Maybe too much attention is being given to what we are on the outside and not enough to who we are inside.
Society is more diverse today than it was 20 or 30 years ago," says Terrell Jones, vice provost for educational equity at Penn State University, noting that between 5 percent to 10 percent of the students in his classes define themselves as multiracial.
For Lewis, calling himself biracial is all about freedom of choice, but there's plenty of dissent about those choices, as there was when Tiger Woods announced on the Oprah Winfrey show that he was "Cablanasian" -- a mix of Caucasian, black and Asian heritage. Many blacks were outraged, and even Colin Powell responded, saying "in America, which I love from the bottom of my heart, when you look at me, I'm black."
(post-gazette)
Via: post-gazette
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