Reply to College professor -“I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life.”

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "College professor -“I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life.”"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Interesting. I didn't think you could "incorrectly identify" - but I suppose now it's time for a struggle session. People usually tell us it's important to say "she identifies as female" and not "she is female" because identification is a choice.

This reminds me of when we signed up our child at a public school in this state. Since we actually do not identify in our family, we left the checkbox for race/ethnicity open. The lady taking our form told us we can't.  We told her that we do not believe in racial "identification" since race is by and large a social construct and all humans share a common genetic ancestry.  This is when she got mad.  If you don't put anything in here, we'll mark her as white.  We asked her what her definition of "white" is - does it refer to a group of haplotypes and if so, which ones?  Would we need to get tested?

In the end, forced to adopt one of the choices on the form (which seemed straight from a 1936 Nazi form except there was no category "deutschbluetig") we checked the "multiracial" box for our child, which is probably the most honest description of all human beings. In 1936, we would have been called "Mischlinge."
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics