{"id":35701,"date":"2014-02-02T21:51:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35701"},"modified":"2017-05-14T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:50:30","slug":"alexandre-dumas-an-original-writer-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35701","title":{"rendered":"Alexandre Dumas: An Original Writer of Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2014\/02\/02\/alexandre-dumas-an-original-writer-of-colour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Alexandre Dumas: An Original Writer of Colour<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediadiversified.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Diversified: Tackling the Lack of Diversity in UK Media and the Ubiquity of Whiteness<\/a><br \/>\n2014-02-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenchisholm.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Glen Chisholm<\/strong><\/a>, Councilor (Labor Party)<br \/>\nIpswich, England<\/p>\n<p>A new generation of viewers are being introduced to the swashbuckling adventures of D\u2019Artagnan and his friends and brothers in arms Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Many will know their motto,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAll for one, One for all\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>as their adventures are played out in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00sxqkb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC\u2019s new Sunday night family drama series<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Three_Musketeers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Three Musketeers<\/em><\/a> has been produced on screen in film and TV numerous times. even in the form of a cartoon, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogtanian_and_the_Three_Muskehounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds<\/a>\u201d in the early 80\u2032s.<\/p>\n<p>For me it\u2019s great that once again these works are getting exposure as I\u2019ve felt a love for stories of adventure ever since I was a child. I remember my father had a collection of classic books, bound in faux leather with gold leaf print. This of course caught my attention and when I started reading them they captured my imagination. As I got older I wanted to learn more about who had created such wonderful tales and when I looked I was inspired by what I saw. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_Dumas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandre Dumas<\/a> a man who like me was mixed race, a man who was black and went on to be one of the most widely read French authors in history&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2014\/02\/02\/alexandre-dumas-an-original-writer-of-colour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of viewers are being introduced to the swashbuckling adventures of D\u2019Artagnan and his friends and brothers in arms Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Many will know their motto, \u201cAll for one, One for all\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,10],"tags":[2407,15613,16878,16877],"class_list":["post-35701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-alexandre-dumas","tag-glen-chisholm","tag-media-diversified","tag-media-diversified-tackling-the-lack-of-diversity-in-uk-media-and-the-ubiquity-of-whiteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701","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=35701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53914,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701\/revisions\/53914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}