{"id":2247,"date":"2009-10-19T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2015-12-07T00:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T00:47:48","slug":"black-unlike-me-scholar-pabst-dismantles-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Minnesota
\nCollege of Liberal Arts Today<\/a>
\nSpring 2002<\/p>\n

Judy Woodward<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naomi Pabst<\/strong><\/a> (B.A. ’93 summa cum laude, English & African-American Studies) is the intellectual enemy of the stereotype, the easy generalization, and the sweeping statement. As a newly-minted scholar of African-American studies and the history of consciousness, she defines her subject loosely as \u201cwhat people think of when they say the word ‘black.’\u201d…<\/p>\n

…What engages Pabst is what she finds on the margins of the black experience.<\/p>\n

It’s a territory that she knows fairly well from personal experience. Although the 33-year-old scholar insists, “I don’t want to reduce what I do to my own experience of marginality,\u201d nevertheless she concedes that, as a biracial child growing up in Canada<\/a> and Germany<\/a>, her experience was not typical of conventional definitions of black culture.<\/p>\n

But then, her point is that many African-Americans\u2014including black cultural icons\u2014did not have “typical” experiences…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Today Spring 2002 Judy Woodward Naomi Pabst (B.A. ’93 summa cum laude, English & African-American Studies) is the intellectual enemy of the stereotype, the easy generalization, and the sweeping statement. As a newly-minted scholar of African-American studies and the history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20,25],"tags":[599,5771],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-naomi-pabst","tag-university-of-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44495,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/44495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}