IMHO, that sort of "identity" is best left to self-definition.
It is. Especially if it's the sort of thing that's shoved down your throat. When I was a kid in Miami, I identified far more as an American girl than a Cuban-American girl. For one thing, the hyphenation as a common form of identification wasn't really in use. You were either Cuban or American. And I was an adolescent at the time of the Mariel boatlift, which caused a lot of heated feelings in South Florida and so if you said you were Cuban, people automatically assumed you were a Marielito. Since I spoke English with no accent, I very firmly responded "American," if I was asked.
As far as I can recall, the usual choices on SAT and college forms were White, non-Hispanic; Black, non-Hispanic; Hispanic; Native American; Native Alaskan; Asian/Pacific Islander; and Other. I can't remember whether Native Hawaiian was a separate category or not, but Native Alaskan definitely was.
Someone tell me that going and playing with the kids is a good idea. It's just so ick out. I feel like getting myself a bowl of ice cream and plopping in front of the tv for the rest of my life.
vw, if those kids get the least little idea that you are sad, they'll clown so hard to cheer you up, or be so sweet it makes your teeth hurt. Go.
GC, what a rough situation.
IIRC, Native Hawaiian is under API.
I can't remember whether Native Hawaiian was a separate category or not
It's usually not. Native Hawaiians are still fighting for the sovereignty that is granted to Native Alaskans and Native Americans.
Okay, question for the hivemind, especially those of the legal and/or librarian like persuasion. What, if any, are the copyright restrictions on old newspaper articles/headlines?
Here's the thing-- the story I'm currently working on is set in 1964-5 and I'm having a devil of a time giving a real sense of the time without using the 2x4 of "OMG, the Beatles, EEEEEEEE!!!" or somesuch. So I thought if I could put a headline or a leadline from an article before every chapter-- or every two or three chapters-- it would be a cool way to alert the reader to not only the time period, but where we are in the story, how much time has elapsed. (It can be a real sticky issue when you're writing in First Person since the narrator isn't necessarily going to be thinking "Wow, three weeks has passed since X happened.")
Anyhow, is that something that would come under public domain after a period of time or if, say, the newspaper is no longer in existence, but I could find a scan on the internet of what a headline from January 1, 1959 would have looked like?
HALP
I think small snippets like that come under "fair use".
You're not reproducing the bulk of a work, you're not portraying it as your own... someone more legal should weigh in to be sure though.
Hi, Bitches. What's the haps?
t tackles smonster, flourishes her with kisses.
Barb, it's not in the public domain (I think the counter is all the way up to 1923 on that? At any rate, way before the 60s...), and the newspaper's current existence doesn't matter either way. HOWEVER, the kind of brief quotation you're describing is widely considered to be fair use even though the material is copyrighted -- just as you could reference "Dewey Defeats Truman". Write what you want, keep a list of where the headlines come from, and let the publisher's rights office sweat it if they worried that the use isn't fair.
