{"id":9976,"date":"2026-11-06T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/is-american-code-for-white-what-immigrants-are-saying\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T19:23:37","slug":"is-american-code-for-white-what-immigrants-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/is-american-code-for-white-what-immigrants-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Is \u201cAmerican\u201d Code for White? What Immigrants Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aywkWW0aJqo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 LIVE: Who gets to be a &quot;real&quot; American? Studies show that people of many backgrounds \u2014 white Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and immigrants \u2014 often link being &quot;American&quot; with being white, even when they believe in equality. Tonight we break down the research, where this bias comes from, and why it&#8217;s false.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we&#8217;ll talk about:<br \/>\n\u2022 The famous &quot;American = White&quot; studies<br \/>\n\u2022 Why Kate Winslet gets seen as &quot;more American&quot; than U.S.-born Lucy Liu<br \/>\n\u2022 How Hollywood, history and old immigration laws shaped who looks &quot;American&quot;<br \/>\n\u2022 Why some immigrants absorb this belief too<br \/>\n\u2022 &quot;Where are you REALLY from?&quot; \u2014 your stories<br \/>\n\u2022 What the 14th Amendment says about who is American<br \/>\n\u2022 The good news: this bias has dropped 40%+ in 17 years<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Join the chat: Have you ever been told you&#8217;re not a &quot;real&quot; American? Or caught yourself thinking this way?<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe and turn on notifications for more live conversations.<\/p>\n<p>#RealAmerican #Immigration #Identity #Race #America #Citizenship #LiveStream<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udd34 LIVE: Who gets to be a &quot;real&quot; American? Studies show that people of many backgrounds \u2014 white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hqdefault-63.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}