{"id":36588,"date":"2014-06-01T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36588"},"modified":"2014-06-01T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:22:02","slug":"mo-asumang-confronting-racism-face-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36588","title":{"rendered":"Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-27375741\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mo-asumang-management.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Asumang<\/a> is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother.<\/p>\n<p>As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Nazism\" target=\"_blank\">neo-Nazis<\/a>, who based their attacks on Asumang&#8217;s &#8220;non-Aryan&#8221; background.<\/p>\n<p>So she decided to look into the racist ideology and to find out more about those who consider themselves &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aryan_race\" target=\"_blank\">Aryan<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In her new documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.die-arier.com\/en\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Aryans<\/em><\/a>, she confronts racists, both in Germany and among the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ku_Klux_Klan\" target=\"_blank\">Ku Klux Klan<\/a> in America.<\/p>\n<p>Mo Asumang spoke to <em>BBC News<\/em> about her experiences making the film&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiTXnKEyecg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang&#8217;s &#8220;non-Aryan&#8221; background. So she decided to look into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,20,842],"tags":[8597,12431,2948,2049],"class_list":["post-36588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-news-magazine","tag-germany","tag-mo-asumang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588","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=36588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}