{"id":9260,"date":"2013-10-11T04:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T04:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2013-10-11T04:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T04:46:35","slug":"why-diversity-in-media-is-important-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=9260","title":{"rendered":"Why Diversity in Media is Important: A “White-Washed” Latina’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

boocheesie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I am a full-blooded Latina, who happened to be raised in an affluent and mostly white community. I can pass for many races (I\u2019ve gotten everything from \u201cDark\u201d Italian to Egyptian to Arabic, even though my ancestry traces mostly to the native peoples of the Caribbean), and so I have only rarely suffered any sort of racism related to being a Latina. I\u2019ve even been rewarded for my heritage, because most Hispanic scholarships are merit-based, and I\u2019m intelligent and was raised privileged enough to excel in school; I even had Ivy League schools show interest in me (and I know my ethnicity was taken into consideration there, because my white peers received no such letters).<\/p>\n

My point is that I might as well have white-privilege – I\u2019ve identified more with the \u201cprivileged white culture\u201d all my life, after all. I\u2019ve joked about being \u201cthe whitest Latina in the world\u201d and I\u2019ve identified with white heroes in television and books and movies and had no real problem that there weren\u2019t any Latina heroes that looked like me.<\/p>\n

A few months ago, I stumbled upon the character of Miss America, from Marvel\u2019s Young Avengers, and everything changed.<\/p>\n

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boocheesie: I am a full-blooded Latina, who happened to be raised in an affluent and mostly white community. I can pass for many races (I\u2019ve gotten everything from \u201cDark\u201d Italian to Egyptian to Arabic, even though my ancestry traces mostly to the native peoples of the Caribbean), and so I have only rarely suffered any … Continue reading Why Diversity in Media is Important: A “White-Washed” Latina’s Story<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}