[lbo-talk] On "whiteness"

[shag carpet bomb]

as for how the Sizzlean do it, it's probably still the case, but you should 
check: cops assign the race, last I knew. that is why there's a report 
(google it, i guess) detailing the difference between the way a cop report 
a crime versus the victim (national victims of vionence survey is the name 
of it, I think). in this report that comes to mind, victims of rape ID'd 
the assailant as white more frequently than cops IDd the assailant as 
white. I think I probably typed this up for this list once, so it's 
probably in the archives.

as for the issue, I hadn't noticed anyone saying he was white to begin with 
so, at least for me, when I hear this on radio or tv news (hear b/c I 
really have my eyes on the screen) he's not been IDd as Latino or White. as 
such, I suspect that, as with racism in general, the typical USer will hear 
no descriptor and assume white as the default.

At 09:37 AM 3/20/2012, Carrol Cox wrote:
>See Barbara Fields on the source of the loopiness in 'racial'
>classification. The core is that there is only one "race," Black. There are
>presidential candidates and there are Black presidential candidates. There
>are school teachers and there are Black school teachers. Etc.  This part of
>U.S. mythology causes all sorts of problems.
>
>Barbara Jeanne Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of
>America," NLR May-June 1990.
>
>I'm not doing well today on communicating links, but try this one:
>
>http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=460
>
>Carrol
>
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>
>On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
>
> > Any early thoughts on this? Is it indicative of journalists writing their
> > stories to fit within predetermined narratives? Are they just relying on
> > the determinations of police, who would, as I recall the federal
> > categories, classify any non-African-descended Hispanic person as "white"?
>
>No idea how cops do it, but in government statistical data, racial/ethnic
>classifications are based on self-identification. Hispanic/Latino is not
>considered a racial category, but a separate "ethnic" identity, further
>proof that these categories are kind of loopy. In the 2010 Census, 53% of
>self-identified Hispanics/Latinos i.d.'d as white, and 38% as "other." Less
>than 3% i.d. as "black," and 6% as two or more races.
>
>It's all broken down in table 2, here:
>
>http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf
>
>Doug
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