{"id":12796,"date":"2011-03-23T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2011-03-25T04:58:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:58:55","slug":"marcia-dawkins-to-be-discussion-participant-on-national-public-radio%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ctell-me-more%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12796","title":{"rendered":"Ladies Remember Elizabeth Taylor, Weigh Modern Beauty Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=134794866\" target=\"_blank\">Ladies Remember Elizabeth Taylor, Weigh Modern Beauty Standards<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/tell-me-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tell Me More<br \/>\n<\/a>National Public Radio<br \/>\n2011-03-23, 14:00-15:00 EDT (WAMU, 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.) For other broadcast times, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/stations\/schedule\/index.php?prgId=46\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faraichideya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Farai Chideya<\/a><\/strong>, Guest Host<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marciadawkins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Scholar<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. The screen icon became a 12-year-old sensation in the movie, &#8220;National Velvet&#8221;. She went on to star in 53 films, winning two Oscars for her work. In <em>Tell Me More&#8217;s<\/em> occasional &#8220;Beautyshop&#8221; conversation, guest host Farai Chideya looks back on the Taylor&#8217;s life and discusses a new survey on changing notions of beauty in America. Weighing in are Latoya Peterson, editor of <em>Racialicious.com<\/em>; Galina Espinoza, editorial director of <em>Latina<\/em> magazine, and Marcia Dawkins, visiting scholar at Brown University.<\/p>\n<p>See: Marcia Alesan Dawkins. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12551\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover<\/a>,\u201d <em>TruthDig<\/em>, March 7, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the episode <a href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/tmm\/2011\/03\/20110323_tmm_04.mp3?dl=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (00:17:49)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies Remember Elizabeth Taylor, Weigh Modern Beauty Standards Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-03-23, 14:00-15:00 EDT (WAMU, 88.5 FM, Washington, D.C.) For other broadcast times, click here. Farai Chideya, Guest Host Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. The screen icon became a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13,6,394,20],"tags":[5758,5759,5760,3083,2408,2406,2309,2308],"class_list":["post-12796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-liveevents","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-farai-chideya","tag-galina-espinoza","tag-latoya-peterson","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins","tag-national-public-radio","tag-tell-me-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}