tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896012504326780838.post890704649578853033..comments2023-11-27T11:13:06.018-05:00Comments on danielle abroad: one voice in the revolutionDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05360887955097185637noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896012504326780838.post-58690629350857417852021-03-18T18:19:42.615-04:002021-03-18T18:19:42.615-04:00Thank you for prompting this inquiry! I prefer to ...Thank you for prompting this inquiry! I prefer to speak to my "white-passing" identity because I experience the privilege of being light-skinned in all case except where my last name identifies me as *Other*. I am not claiming non-whiteness but rather rejecting the pervasive white American ignorance that so many exist in. It has taken some work and self-actualization to express my identity with everything-but-white first and I am conscious to remind others who may perceive me as white as to how nuanced appearance and identity and racial/ethnic labels are, as well as how ever-expanding whiteness has been – to now include Americans of Polish, Italian, Irish descent, for example. danielle abroadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852597933426408787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2896012504326780838.post-74389325816026851962020-09-08T22:38:22.425-04:002020-09-08T22:38:22.425-04:00I wonder how you thoughts have changed after Prisc...I wonder how you thoughts have changed after Priscila Garcia Jaquier's deconstructing Latinx series? I found it through your IG stories, thank you, she is fire! You wrote this before that, and here you say, "I am not white." Have you come to a more nuanced understanding now? You *are* white. Hispanic/Latinx is not a non-white race, it is an ethnicity as varied as Americans but more importantly it is constructed *by* America and erases us all -- especially when it encourages/allows white women who look like us to claim non-whiteness. I am Brazilian raised in America. I am white. In Brazil I am white, too. I have white privilege in America, I have white privelege in Brazil, and I have white privilege everywhere I have traveled and lived in the world -- as I've seen you have everywhere, too. You're white, and that doesn't mean you're not Latinx. Just like being Latinx doesn't mean you're not white -- across Central and South America there are millions of white residents, millions of Black residents, millions of indigenous residents, millions of Asian-descedent residents, millions pf mixed residents -- all who trace their families back generations in Central & South America, like you & I also do. You are Latinx and you are white and you cannot co-op a non-white experience by saying "I am not white." Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897686365557520164noreply@blogger.com