{"id":40519,"date":"2015-03-20T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40519"},"modified":"2015-03-20T00:36:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:36:57","slug":"as-a-biracial-gentleman-it-has-been-blatantly-clear-to-me-my-entire-movie-going-existence-that-my-distinct-mixed-race-experience-must-be-just-some-fairytale-figment-of-my-imagination-to-those-shining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40519","title":{"rendered":"As a biracial gentleman, it has been blatantly clear to me my entire movie-going existence that my distinct mixed race experience must be just some fairytale figment of my imagination to those shining the greenlight in Hollywood."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a biracial gentleman, it has been blatantly clear to me my entire movie-going existence that my distinct mixed race experience must be just some fairytale figment of my imagination to those shining the greenlight in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a>. Characters of multiple ethnicities typically find their stories swept under the dirty rug to give the red carpet treatment to the \u201cmore relatable\u201d struggles of the interracial couples that give birth to us instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott Myer, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40506\" target=\"_blank\">Great Character: Sam White (\u201cDear White People\u201d)<\/a>,\u201d <em>Go Into the Story<\/em>, (March 13, 2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/gointothestory.blcklst.com\/2015\/03\/great-character-sam-white-dear-white-people.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gointothestory.blcklst.com\/2015\/03\/great-character-sam-white-dear-white-people.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a biracial gentleman, it has been blatantly clear to me my entire movie-going existence that my distinct mixed race experience must be just some fairytale figment of my imagination to those shining the greenlight in Hollywood. Characters of multiple ethnicities typically find their stories swept under the dirty rug to give the red carpet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19670,19671],"class_list":["post-40519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-go-into-the-story","tag-scott-myer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40519","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=40519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}