{"id":369,"date":"2015-11-18T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-11-18T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:00:14","slug":"we-are-more-than-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/2015\/11\/18\/we-are-more-than-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"We are more than labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest post by: Jorge Garcia, BSC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of decades, our society has made great progress when it comes to racial discrimination, and although we still have a long way to go, we can slowly see improvements with each new generation. However, there is another side to this issue that is often ignored or minimized. It is what we call \u201cWhite Privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In short, white privilege can be considered to be the other side of racism. It is that immense list of everyday conflicts that some people have the privilege of ignoring simply because they are \u201cwhite\u201d. It is the privilege of being considered an individual and not just another member of a specific group or race. It is the privilege of being a voice, and not just a stereotype or a set of labels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe Are More Than Labels\u201d is a series of portraits that intend to expose some of the invisible labels that people are given simply because of their color. It is an exploration of both the prejudices that people of color have to go through, and in the counterpart, the lack of these labels on white people; which result in the privilege of not being judged based on their skin color, the privilege of doubt, and the privilege of trust.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_1.jpg\" alt=\"We Are More Than Labels_1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_1-75x42.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-372\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_2.jpg\" alt=\"We Are More Than Labels_2\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_2-75x42.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-373\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_3.jpg\" alt=\"We Are More Than Labels_3\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_3.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_3-75x42.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-374\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_4.jpg\" alt=\"We Are More Than Labels_4\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_4.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/files\/2015\/11\/We-Are-More-Than-Labels_4-75x42.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by: Jorge Garcia, BSC In the last couple of decades, our society has made great progress when it comes to racial discrimination, and although we still have a long way to go, we can slowly see improvements with each new generation. However, there is another side to this issue that is often ignored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/2015\/11\/18\/we-are-more-than-labels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We are more than labels<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16637,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,1261628],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-your-voice","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theglobalspectrum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}