{"id":34107,"date":"2013-10-05T05:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T05:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34107"},"modified":"2013-10-05T05:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T05:23:21","slug":"united-states-of-the-united-races-%e2%80%93-great-resource-for-storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34107","title":{"rendered":"United States of the United Races \u2013 Great Resource for Storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedrootsstories.org\/united-states-of-the-united-races-great-resource-for-storytellers\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States of the United Races \u2013 Great Resource for Storytellers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedrootsstories.org\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories: Strengthening and celebrating diverse Mixed communities through the power of sharing stories<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-02<\/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>Greg Carter, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26258\" target=\"_blank\">The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing<\/a><\/em> (New York: New York University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>When discovering the strongest submissions for the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120429234441\/http:\/\/www.mxroots.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Film &amp; Literary Festival<\/a>, one thing always stood out for me: the storyteller (filmmaker, author, performer) had a solid understanding of the historical context behind the story they were telling. Although many of the personal narratives were compelling, it was often clear when the creator of the work hadn\u2019t delved into the historical reasons why they found themselves in a certain time and space. This often made the work feel lacking in some way.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/letsci\/history\/faculty\/carter.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Carter\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26258\" target=\"_blank\"><em>United States of the United Races<\/em><\/a> \u2013 an antidote to celebrations of the mixed experience that lack the important weight of context. <a href=\"http:\/\/nyupress.org\/webchapters\/carter_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Introduction<\/a> examines how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> \u2013 and many others \u2013 have capitalized on his being mixed, \u201che piggybacked onto positive notions about racially mixed people to improve his symbolic power.\u201d Carter makes his goals for the book clear here: 1) to show that racial mixture has a long history of being touted as a way towards progress and 2) to question the notion that racial mixture automatically equals progress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedrootsstories.org\/united-states-of-the-united-races-great-resource-for-storytellers\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States of the United Races \u2013 Great Resource for Storytellers Mixed Roots Stories: Strengthening and celebrating diverse Mixed communities through the power of sharing stories 2013-10-02 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Greg Carter, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing (New York: New York University Press, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,20],"tags":[118,12646,1972,15960,16022],"class_list":["post-34107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","tag-greg-carter","tag-mixed-roots-stories","tag-mixed-roots-stories-strengthening-and-celebrating-diverse-mixed-communities-through-the-power-of-sharing-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34107","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=34107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}