{"id":34558,"date":"2013-11-02T22:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T22:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34558"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:03:19","slug":"mixing-racial-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34558","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Racial Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/84546\/mixing-racial-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixing Racial Messages<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art &amp; its Discontents<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/ryan-wong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wong<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Starting with its title, the group exhibition\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wingluke.org\/exhibitions\/special.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>War Baby\/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at Seattle\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wingluke.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wing Luke<\/a> museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories?\u00a0How do they escape, as the curators put it, an \u201cidentity defined by their parentage,\u201d \u201cfixed in the status of infants or children\u201d?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Paradoxically, <em>War Baby\/Love Child<\/em> begins with that parentage in order to make room for the artist to grow past it. Organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Kina<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/~aas\/dariotis-wei-ming.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wei Ming Dariotis<\/a>, it is the most significant exhibition on the subject since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaweedproductions.com\/about\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kip Fulbeck\u2019s<\/a> groundbreaking <a href=\"http:\/\/seaweedproductions.com\/the-hapa-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hapa Project<\/em><\/a>, which began in 2002. In the decade since, we have seen America\u2019s multiracial population <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/25\/us\/25race.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">grow a third<\/a>, to 9 million, not to mention the election of our first mixed race President&#8230;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/84546\/mixing-racial-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixing Racial Messages Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art &amp; its Discontents 2013-10-30 Ryan Wong Starting with its title, the group exhibition\u00a0War Baby\/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art\u00a0\u00a0at Seattle\u2019s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories?\u00a0How do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8,20],"tags":[10605,3972,16281,16280,41,10598,2077,16282,42],"class_list":["post-34558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amanda-ross-ho","tag-debra-yepa-pappan","tag-hyperallergic","tag-hyperallergic-sensitive-to-art-its-discontents","tag-laura-kina","tag-laurel-nakadate","tag-louie-gong","tag-ryan-wong","tag-wei-ming-dariotis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34558","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=34558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}