Not that it matters, mostly, but I do want to get the words right. So we are reading a book on someone who is mixed Native American Ojibwe and white.
Some people in my class, let’s say, are Indian (from India) and white. We agreed that would be mixed, but for example, someone who is English and Swedish would not be because they are just white.
Would they not be mixed race, mixed ethnicity, or be neither?
Nah that’s still a mix, a mix of two things commonly referred to as ‘white’ currently. The standards of ‘which races are white’ has changed over the last hundred years.
This is really misleading. Races don’t exist out there. They are categories we invented. White is one of those categories. We don’t put races into racial categories. We don’t put some races in the white category. We put people in the racial categories. Race is ONLY the category. There’s no other reality to it other than the choice to categorize.
This 100 “white” is as bullshit term as man and woman.
Thanks, that makes sense!!