{"id":30764,"date":"2013-05-06T18:06:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30764"},"modified":"2016-04-07T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:23:17","slug":"solo-show-at-ucsbs-multicultural-center-examines-notions-of-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30764","title":{"rendered":"Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Affairs & Communications<\/a>
\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/a>
\nNews Release
\n2013-05-01<\/p>\n

Contact: Andrea Estrada<\/a><\/strong>: 805-893-4620; George Foulsham<\/a><\/strong>: 805-893-3071<\/p>\n

Multimedia performance is produced by Ben Affleck<\/a>, Matt Damon<\/a> and Chay Carter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Santa Barbara, Calif.)\u2014When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a> married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined to attend the wedding altogether.<\/p>\n

Seeking to understand why he chose not to participate, DiGiovanni began a trek through family history\u2014and time and space\u2014that ultimately led to her M.F.A. thesis project: the multimedia one-woman play, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

DiGiovanni will perform the hour-long show at UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center Theater on Tuesday, May 7<\/a>. The performance begins at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a question-and-answer session with G. Reginald Daniel<\/a>, professor of sociology at UCSB. Daniels is a leading expert in the field of critical mixed race studies…<\/p>\n

…A leading activist on issues related to mixed race, DiGiovanni is an actor, comedian, producer, and educator. She developed “One Drop of Love” as the thesis project for her Master of Fine Arts degree in film, television, and theater from California State University Los Angeles. She will use footage from her performances\u2014the most recent was at the University of Maryland<\/a>\u2014to produce a documentary film…<\/p>\n

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

Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity Public Affairs & Communications University of California, Santa Barbara News Release 2013-05-01 Contact: Andrea Estrada: 805-893-4620; George Foulsham: 805-893-3071 Multimedia performance is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter (Santa Barbara, Calif.)\u2014When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,33,125,8,394,20,25],"tags":[14597,118,12646,142,14598,4494],"class_list":["post-30764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-andrea-estrada","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-george-foulsham","tag-university-of-california-at-santa-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764","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=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46519,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions\/46519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}