{"id":37355,"date":"2014-09-15T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37355"},"modified":"2014-09-15T02:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:00:44","slug":"footprints-of-my-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37355","title":{"rendered":"Footprints of my other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seppia.eu\/en\/noire-ici-blanche-la-bas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Footprints of my other<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>\n52 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africultures.com\/php\/?nav=personne&amp;no=7015\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Claude Haffner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Born to a mixed race couple in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo\" target=\"_blank\">DRC<\/a>, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in 1976 to a French father and a Congolese mother in Za\u00efre (today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a>). Pierre Haffner, her father, passed away in 2000, and having become a specialist on African art and cinema, he left behind a collection of African art together with photos and taped accounts about Congo and Africa. This is the starting point of Claude\u2019s investigation. She delves into their shared material, intellectual and psychological heritage. She interviews her mother who still lives in France about her country, her family and her history. In the search of answers to her questions she returns, alone this time, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mbuji-Mayi\" target=\"_blank\">Mbuji-Mayi<\/a>, the capital of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kasai-Oriental\" target=\"_blank\">Kasa\u00ef<\/a> and the centre of the diamond trade. Michou, her cousin travels with her to the heart of the diamond fields. Despite unemployment, poverty and lack of activity the inhabitants of Mbuji-Mayi remain hopeful owing to the new governor\u2019s development policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born 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":[1295,28,125,842],"tags":[17883,17887,96],"class_list":["post-37355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-videos","tag-claude-haffner","tag-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355","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=37355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}