{"id":20378,"date":"2012-02-05T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20378"},"modified":"2012-02-05T20:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T20:31:57","slug":"woman-traces-her-tanzanian-roots-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20378","title":{"rendered":"Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thecitizen.co.tz\/business\/-\/19479-woman-traces-her-tanzanian-roots-in-film\" target=\"_blank\">Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecitizen.co.tz\" target=\"_blank\">The Citizen<\/a><br \/>\nDar es Salaam, Tanzania<br \/>\n2012-02-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyrone Beason<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby <em>Summertime<\/em> from the African-American opera <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>, this one sung by the Benin-born artist Angelique Kidjo as a West African spiritual, full of cooing background vocals and soul-tapping percussion.<\/p>\n<p>Kimaro\u2019s father is Tanzanian. Her mother is Korean. She\u2019d always been comfortable with her mixed-race background, but something about hearing that song eight years ago sparked a longing to better understand the people she came from, particularly the relatives in Kilimanjaro region, where her father grew up and where she\u2019d visited many times as a child.It dawned on her that she should make a film about her father\u2019s side of the family, even though she\u2019d never directed a movie in her life.<\/p>\n<p>The result, <em>A Lot Like You<\/em>, debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival last year to positive reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The film helps raise the profile of a population in the United States that many people who identify with just one racial or ethnic group scarcely understand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Elikimaro is part of a new wave of multiracial pride, discussion and activism rooted in a very real demographic shift.<\/p>\n<p>America is, in fact, more multiracial. According to the 2010 U.S. census, more than 9 million Americans identified themselves as belonging to two or more racial groups, or about 2.9 per cent of the total population, up from 2.4 per cent a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2000, the census has made it easier than ever for people answering its surveys to pick more than one racial group; and Americans who have mixed-race backgrounds, long a cause for derision and marginalization, are ever more comfortable checking all the boxes that apply to them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thecitizen.co.tz\/business\/-\/19479-woman-traces-her-tanzanian-roots-in-film\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,24,16,125,8,20,25],"tags":[9495,9496,6368,9494],"class_list":["post-20378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-arts","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-eli-kimaro","tag-tanzania","tag-the-citizen","tag-tyrone-beason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378","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=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}