{"id":41020,"date":"2015-05-01T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41020"},"modified":"2015-05-01T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:33:54","slug":"sorry-music-journalists-drake-is-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41020","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canadalandshow.com\/article\/sorry-music-journalists-drake-black\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canadalandshow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Canadaland<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canadalandshow.com\/users\/kyrell-grant\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kyrell Grant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Writers need to stop policing his blackness<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It feels ridiculous to have to say this: Drake is black.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drake_(entertainer)\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a>, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto&#8217;s<\/a> greatest civic triumphalist since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Jacobs\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Jacobs<\/a> is black.<\/p>\n<p>He is a black man as much as any other black man. And yet Drake&#8217;s own identity &#8211; his nationality, his mixed race background that includes Jewish heritage and upbringing, the neighbourhood he once lived in, the schools he went to &#8211; is often taken to mean that his black experience is somehow inauthentic. While certainly not the first artist to have this kind of analysis imposed on him, Drake&#8217;s profile means that his art in particular has been prominently used to deny his black experience when it doesn&#8217;t conform to someone else&#8217;s narrow vision of race&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/canadalandshow.com\/article\/sorry-music-journalists-drake-black\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black. Canadaland 2015-04-30 Kyrell Grant Writers need to stop policing his blackness It feels ridiculous to have to say this: Drake is black. Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto&#8217;s greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is black. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,8413,3601,8,820],"tags":[20007,20008,10399,20009,1392],"class_list":["post-41020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-communications","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-aubrey-graham","tag-canadaland","tag-drake","tag-kyrell-grant","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020","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=41020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}