{"id":40871,"date":"2015-04-16T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40871"},"modified":"2015-04-16T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T15:08:03","slug":"the-daily-shows-trevor-noah-and-japans-miss-universe-reveal-biracial-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40871","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Show\u2019s Trevor Noah, and Japan\u2019s Miss Universe Reveal Biracial Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrightswords.com\/2015\/04\/09\/trevor-ariana\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Daily Show\u2019s<\/strong><em><strong> Trevor Noah, and Japan\u2019s Miss Universe Reveal Biracial Realities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrightswords.com\" target=\"_blank\">Will Wright: Cin\u00e9ma, Style, Race and Politics Permeate Our Lives. That Fascinates Me.<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wrightswords\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Will Wright<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks in part to the changing of the guard at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Show\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Daily Show<\/em><\/a>, biracial experiences and related politics have made headlines, and snuck into our minds. South African, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trevornoah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah<\/a>, once a correspondent for <em>The Daily Show<\/em>, has been named to host it, succeeding <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Stewart\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart<\/a>. His immediate family tree seems about as strange to Americans as Senator Obama\u2019s did when he began running for president; Mr. Noah\u2019s mom is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xhosa_people\" target=\"_blank\">Xhosa<\/a> South African and his father Swiss.<\/p>\n<p>But his mixed heritage is not the only one being discussed. If you pay attention to headlines about mixed race folks (who doesn\u2019t, right?) then you\u2019ve felt shockwaves from Japan\u2019s Miss Universe contestant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/wrightswords.com\/2015\/04\/09\/trevor-ariana\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show\u2019s Trevor Noah, and Japan\u2019s Miss Universe Reveal Biracial Realities Will Wright: Cin\u00e9ma, Style, Race and Politics Permeate Our Lives. That Fascinates Me. 2015-04-09 Will Wright Thanks in part to the changing of the guard at The Daily Show, biracial experiences and related politics have made headlines, and snuck into our minds. South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,24,16,8,520,20],"tags":[19675,1793,19676,19769,15219,19897],"class_list":["post-40871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","category-usa","tag-ariana-miyamoto","tag-japan","tag-miss-universe","tag-the-daily-show","tag-trevor-noah","tag-will-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871","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=40871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}