{"id":30233,"date":"2013-04-08T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30233"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:33:47","slug":"performing-%e2%80%98race%e2%80%99-and-challenging-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30233","title":{"rendered":"Performing \u2018Race\u2019 and Challenging Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/performing-race-and-challenging-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Performing \u2018Race\u2019 and Challenging Racism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Drop of Love: A Daughter&#8217;s Search for her Father&#8217;s Racial Approval<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog Updates<\/a><br \/>\n2013-04-08<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/a-little-more-about-fanshen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a><\/strong>, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/performing-race-and-challenging-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cropped-One-Drop-of-Love-Logo-7_Website-Header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is an exciting time to be an actor, when the notion of \u2018performance\u2019 is taking on new meanings and has the potential to change the way we view the art form. Traditional definitions of \u2018performance\u2019 include <em>the act of staging or presenting a play; a rendering of a dramatic role<\/em>. Now scholar\/activists like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egs.edu\/faculty\/judith-butler\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Butler<\/a> are exploring a new definition of performance, or \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Performativity\" target=\"_blank\">performativity<\/a>\u2019\u2014looking at how we use language and behavior to construct identity.<\/p>\n<p>In my solo show, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Drop of Love<\/a><\/em>, I get to meld these two understandings of performance. I am an actor who portrays several different characters: my Jamaican\/<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan-Africanism\" target=\"_blank\">Pan-Africanist<\/a> father, my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackfoot_Confederacy\" target=\"_blank\">Blackfeet<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee<\/a>-Danish mother, candy and fruit vendors from East and West Africa, Census Workers from the 1790s to the present, racist cops from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cambridge,_Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge, MA<\/a> and many others. At the same time, in taking on these roles, I explore the construction of\u00a0 \u2018racial\u2019 identity, <strong>and how these identities are created through speech and acts\u2014and not through biology&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/performing-race-and-challenging-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performing \u2018Race\u2019 and Challenging Racism One Drop of Love: A Daughter&#8217;s Search for her Father&#8217;s Racial Approval Blog Updates 2013-04-08 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator It is an exciting time to be an actor, when the notion of \u2018performance\u2019 is taking on new meanings and has the potential to change the way we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,33,8,394,20],"tags":[118,12646],"class_list":["post-30233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30233","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=30233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47315,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30233\/revisions\/47315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}