{"id":33767,"date":"2013-11-09T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33767"},"modified":"2014-01-26T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T10:27:45","slug":"3rd-annual-what-are-you-a-discussion-about-mixed-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33767","title":{"rendered":"3rd Annual: What Are You? &#8211; A Discussion about Mixed Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/3rd-annual-what-are-you-discussion-about-mixed-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">3rd Annual: What Are You? &#8211; A Discussion about Mixed Heritage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Historical Society<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations<\/a><br \/>\nSaturday, 2013-11-09, 14:00 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/3rd-annual-what-are-you-discussion-about-mixed-heritage\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/graphics\/LittleCBBGlogo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Travyon Martin murder trial, to racist responses to the Cheerios commercial starring an interracial couple, recent media events illustrate that the U.S is definitely not post-racial. Join BHS in exploring critical questions relating to multicultural and multiracial identity. We&#8217;ll discuss big questions like: How do we perform and display our identities? How does\u00a0media, film, art, humor and photography shape and mediate mixed-race identity?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I will be introducing the panelists.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Panelists include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael David Murphy<\/strong> and <strong>Alyson West<\/strong>, creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/wearethe15percent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">We are the 15%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.edu\/academics\/faculty\/cjohnson\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Johnson<\/a><\/strong> of transmedia project, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/questionbridge.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Question Bridge: Black Males<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Anoushka Ratnarajah<\/strong> and <strong>Marcelitte Failla<\/strong> of <a href=\"http:\/\/toastedmarshmallowsproject.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toasted Marshmallows<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceforward.org\/about\/staff\/jay-smooth\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Smooth<\/a><\/strong>, host of hip-hop video blog <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illdoctrine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ill Doctrine<\/a><\/em> and video producer at Colorlines.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus a dance performance by special guests \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=le3MJbMc8_A\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019re Muslim, Don\u2019t Panic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovingday.org\" target=\"_blank\">LovingDay.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SWIRL<\/a>, <a href=\"www.mavinfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">MAVIN: The Mixed Heritage Experience<\/a>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\" target=\"_blank\">MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynbrewery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Brewery<\/a> beer and light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/3rd-annual-what-are-you-discussion-about-mixed-heritage\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd Annual: What Are You? &#8211; A Discussion about Mixed Heritage Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-11-09, 14:00 EST (Local Time) From the Travyon Martin murder trial, to racist responses to the Cheerios commercial starring an interracial couple, recent media events illustrate that the U.S is definitely not post-racial. Join BHS in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8413,125,1196,13,8,394,20],"tags":[15875,15877,6560,15876,15879,15878,15874],"class_list":["post-33767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-alyson-west","tag-anoushka-ratnarajah","tag-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-chris-johnson","tag-jay-smooth","tag-marcelitte-failla","tag-michael-david-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767","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=33767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}