{"id":15674,"date":"2011-09-23T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2012-10-16T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:18:29","slug":"what-are-you-mixed-heritage-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15674","title":{"rendered":"What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/visitor\/calendar.html#b0926\" target=\"_blank\">What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/default\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Historical Society<\/a><br \/>\n128 Pierrepont Street<br \/>\nBrooklyn, New York<br \/>\n2011-09-26, 19:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><em>All events are held at BHS and are free with museum admission ($6 adults, $4 students\/teachers\/seniors, free for children under 12) unless otherwise noted. Admission is always free for BHS members.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Participate in this discussion at BHS about mixed heritage co-sponsored by Loving Day, a global network fighting racial prejudice through education and building multicultural community. This conversation will be facilitated by Jen Chau of Swirl, a multi-ethnic, anti-racist organization that promotes cross-cultural dialogue, with Suleiman Osman, author of <em>The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification, Race, and the Search for Authenticity in Post-War New York<\/em>; performance artist Judith Sloan, co-author and co-creator with Warren Lehrer of <em>Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America<\/em>; and writer and actress Katrina Grigg-Saito, whose documentary and installation <em>FishBird<\/em> is titled for the saying \u201ca fish can love a bird but where would they live?\u201d This event is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/exhibitions\/crossing_borders.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations<\/a><\/em>, a public programming series and oral history project about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity, infused with historical perspective. This project is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities, Two Trees Management, Brooklyn Brewery, Sweet\u2019N Low, and Con Edison.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/visitor\/calendar.html#b0926\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are You? Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2011-09-26, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) All events are held at BHS and are free with museum admission ($6 adults, $4 students\/teachers\/seniors, free for children under 12) unless otherwise noted. Admission is always free for BHS members. Participate in this discussion at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,8,20],"tags":[6675,6560,7230,2806,7231,2711,7233,7232],"class_list":["post-15674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-brookyln-historical-society","tag-jen-chau","tag-katrina-grigg-saito","tag-new-york","tag-suleiman-osman","tag-warren-lehrer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674","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=15674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}