{"id":39145,"date":"2014-12-30T20:26:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39145"},"modified":"2014-12-30T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T20:26:10","slug":"museum-offers-interactive-oral-history-of-mixed-race-brooklynites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39145","title":{"rendered":"Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manhattan.ny1.com\/content\/news\/221128\/museum-offers-interactive-oral-history-of-mixed-race-brooklynites\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\" target=\"_blank\">NY1 News<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n2014-12-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\/content\/about_ny1\/staff_profiles\/347\/jeanine-ramirez---brooklyn-reporter\/\"><strong>Jeanine Ramirez<\/strong><\/a>, Brooklyn Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1\u2019s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:aschwartz@brooklynhistory.org\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Schwartz<\/a> clicks on the latest resource at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Historical Society<\/a>, an oral history project about self-identity, showcasing those who are of mixed race and heritage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not just telling a sweetness and light story. This is not just that America is kind of the perfect melting pot. But rather that this is something that&#8217;s had very powerful impact on people both positive and negative, said Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>The project, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations<\/a>,\u201d offers a view into the lives of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklynites<\/a> who have to balance different cultural worlds. The more than 100 oral histories collected can be listened to online. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Park_Slope\" target=\"_blank\">Park Slope<\/a> resident Alexander David who started the Half Asian Club at his school&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/manhattan.ny1.com\/content\/news\/221128\/museum-offers-interactive-oral-history-of-mixed-race-brooklynites\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1\u2019s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,125,8,20,842],"tags":[18933,6560,18607,18932,2711,596,18931],"class_list":["post-39145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-alexander-david","tag-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-deborah-schwartz","tag-jeanine-ramirez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny1-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145","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=39145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}