{"id":43047,"date":"2011-08-09T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2011-08-09T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:25:06","slug":"amardeep-singh-on-l%e2%80%99affaire-haley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/09\/amardeep-singh-on-l%e2%80%99affaire-haley\/","title":{"rendered":"Amardeep Singh on l\u2019affaire Haley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electrostani.com\/2011\/08\/nikki-haley-race-and-us-census.html\">Nikki Haley, Race, and the U.S. Census<\/a>. As Singh observes, it&#8217;s complicated with regards to Nikki Haley. Of course some people don&#8217;t like complication, and like to turn everything into black and white cut-outs to further their own ideology. That doesn&#8217;t mean we always have to play by their rules (for what it&#8217;s worth, I always put &#8220;Asian&#8221; for my race if there isn&#8217;t a brown specific option, though I probably would not do so if it was for the purposes of biomedical research). I like Singh&#8217;s exploration in particular about the nuances of identity among Sikhs in America. Outsiders might not understand, and so impose their own categories to shape their perceptions. By analogy I kind of got tired of people constantly assuming that Mahatma Gandhi was revered in my family because we&#8217;re brown. There&#8217;s no great hate, but he doesn&#8217;t play the same role in the history of Bangladesh that he does in India. I recall once that a white reader accused me of being a &#8220;sellout&#8221; because I admitted that Gandhi wasn&#8217;t emphasized in my family. Because you know, he <b>got everything about brown people.<\/b> This problem of course applies even more to brown people, who overgeneralize from their own personal experiences and preferences to other brown people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley, Race, and the U.S. Census. As Singh observes, it&#8217;s complicated with regards to Nikki Haley. Of course some people don&#8217;t like complication, and like to turn everything into black and white cut-outs to further their own ideology. That doesn&#8217;t mean we always have to play by their rules (for what it&#8217;s worth, I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1656,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nikki-haley","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43109,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43047\/revisions\/43109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}