{"id":37502,"date":"2014-09-29T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37502"},"modified":"2014-11-13T00:27:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T00:27:51","slug":"alien-citizen-delivers-a-raw-moving-sociological-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37502","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alien Citizen\u2019 delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/williamsrecord.com\/2014\/09\/24\/alien-citizen-delivers-a-raw-moving-sociological-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Alien Citizen\u2019 delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/williamsrecord.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Williams Record: The Independent Student Newspaper at WIlliams College since 1887<\/a><br \/>\nWilliamstown, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2014-09-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Walker<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s anything that students at the College love to think about, it\u2019s identity. Indeed, the big questions about who we are, what we want to do and what we can (or in some cases should) become are some of the most fundamental, dynamic issues we grapple with, shaping the ways we think and interact. Which is why, at least for this Williams student, Elizabeth Liang\u2019s one-woman show \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30720\" target=\"_blank\">Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey<\/a>,\u201d performed last Thursday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/62center.williams.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201962 Center for Theatre and Dance<\/a>, strikes such a profound and memorable chord.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the show deals with just that problem. Telling the largely auto-biographical story of Liang, \u201cAlien Citizen\u201d describes a girlhood spent travelling between Central America, North Africa, the Middle East and New England, a journey ever-complicated by Liang\u2019s own biracial status. And, like any journey, there are certainly plenty of obstacles to overcome \u2013 obstacles, in this case, which include the threats of racism, classism, sexism and, obviously, alienation. Indeed, perhaps the most distinctive aspect of the journey Liang goes on is its profound sense of loneliness \u2013 as a self-described \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_culture_kid\" target=\"_blank\">Third Culture Kid<\/a>,\u201d Liang feels like a foreigner even in the places where she\u2019s stayed the longest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsrecord.com\/2014\/09\/24\/alien-citizen-delivers-a-raw-moving-sociological-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Alien Citizen\u2019 delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey The Williams Record: The Independent Student Newspaper at WIlliams College since 1887 Williamstown, Massachusetts 2014-09-24 William Walker, Staff Writer If there\u2019s anything that students at the College love to think about, it\u2019s identity. Indeed, the big questions about who we are, what we want to do and [&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":[12423,17972,17971,17973],"class_list":["post-37502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-liang","tag-the-williams-record","tag-william-walker","tag-williams-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37502","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=37502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}