{"id":32541,"date":"2013-07-24T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32541"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:46:10","slug":"exploring-african-american-fatherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32541","title":{"rendered":"Exploring African-American Fatherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/15\/exploring-african-american-fatherhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring African-American Fatherhood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lens: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism<\/a><br \/>\n2012-06-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/g\/david_gonzalez\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Gonzalez<\/a><\/strong>, Co-editor of\u00a0Lens<\/p>\n<p>What compels you to shoot? That was the question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidalanharvey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Alan Harvey<\/a> asked his students during a workshop last year in Brooklyn. We all have our reasons \u2014 if not our obsessions \u2014 flashes of realization that come through the viewfinder and into our hearts. For <a href=\"http:\/\/zunlee.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Zun Lee<\/a>, one of the students, the answer was uneasily evident.<\/p>\n<p>As a street photographer, he had always been attracted to fleeting scenes of fathers and children. He was drawn to those moments, even if he wasn\u2019t quite sure why.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe he was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,\u201d said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany.<\/strong> \u201cIt had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn\u2019t even remember his name anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That revelation would inform his latest work \u2014 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/zunlee.com\/blog\/post\/father-figure-project-choices\" target=\"_blank\">Father Figure<\/a>,\u201d an exploration into the lives of black fathers.\u00a0 Working over the last year in New York, Chicago and Toronto, where he now lives and works as a health consultant, he has delved into the lives of men who have made the choice to stay near their children as best they can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cLearning about my biological father wasn\u2019t just a traumatic experience,\u201d Mr. Lee said. \u201cLearning the news was in a weird sense a homecoming.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/15\/exploring-african-american-fatherhood\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,\u201d said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. \u201cIt had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn\u2019t even remember his name anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,414,8,20],"tags":[15282,2640,147,2327,15283],"class_list":["post-32541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-david-gonzalez","tag-new-york-times","tag-photography","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-zun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541","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=32541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52895,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions\/52895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}