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Query for the Comm
Aug. 14th, 2008 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanguinityCan someone help me out of this hole I'm digging for myself, please? Does Joe Sacco (Palestine) qualify for this comm?
Sacco is Maltese. Malta is a Mediterranean island with a mixed European and Arabic history (f'rinstance, Maltese is an Arabic-family language written in Romanic script); I'm seeing a lot of debate as to whether the Arabic or European influence is stronger, and some assertions that at least some of the debate is British propaganda from when Malta was a British colony. From my roaming around chatrooms trying to figure this out, at least some ethnic Maltese self-identify as people of color.
...but I can't tell if Sacco himself does. The first photo I saw of him, I thought "person of color," but most of the press about him seems to assume he's white (the "his race/background isn't worth mentioning" treatment that white people get). But then, this comm has been generally considering people of the Middle East to be people of color even though many in the mainstream consider them white, so I'm not sure that Sacco's treatment by the press is exactly relevant here.
So... um?
(And if the mods want, I'll delete this post after.)
Sacco is Maltese. Malta is a Mediterranean island with a mixed European and Arabic history (f'rinstance, Maltese is an Arabic-family language written in Romanic script); I'm seeing a lot of debate as to whether the Arabic or European influence is stronger, and some assertions that at least some of the debate is British propaganda from when Malta was a British colony. From my roaming around chatrooms trying to figure this out, at least some ethnic Maltese self-identify as people of color.
...but I can't tell if Sacco himself does. The first photo I saw of him, I thought "person of color," but most of the press about him seems to assume he's white (the "his race/background isn't worth mentioning" treatment that white people get). But then, this comm has been generally considering people of the Middle East to be people of color even though many in the mainstream consider them white, so I'm not sure that Sacco's treatment by the press is exactly relevant here.
So... um?
(And if the mods want, I'll delete this post after.)
