{"id":41118,"date":"2015-05-13T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41118"},"modified":"2015-05-13T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:19:16","slug":"bezuidenhout-noted-that-noah-always-identified-himself-as-a-mixed-race-south-african-raised-in-straitened-circumstances-in-soweto-without-using-it-as-a-crutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41118","title":{"rendered":"Bezuidenhout noted that Noah always identified himself as a mixed-race South African raised in straitened circumstances in Soweto without \u201cusing it as a crutch.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Both men said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trevornoah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Trevor] Noah<\/a>\u00a0distinguished himself from other comics by resisting labels and \u201cgenre-based comedy.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/schalkiebez\" target=\"_blank\">[Schalk] Bezuidenhout<\/a> noted that Noah always identified himself as a mixed-race South African raised in straitened circumstances in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soweto\" target=\"_blank\">Soweto<\/a> without \u201cusing it as a crutch.\u201d Contemporaries who have shared the stage with him say he\u2019s unusually attuned to the audience, shifting direction based on the feel in the room, and Bezuidenhout has seen Noah drop chunks of material based on the city he\u2019s performing in. This was a quality that a number of immigrants in South Africa had already mentioned to me. Omega Chembhere, a waiter, told me that when he had arrived from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe<\/a> 10 years earlier, much of South African pop culture had seemed inaccessible. \u201cTrevor\u2019s different, so good at it,\u201d he said. \u201cHis strength is that everything springs from his experience in life, but you understand his reality because he makes an effort to <em>explain<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/about\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/douglas-foster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Foster<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40987\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Noah\u2019s World<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, April 5, 2015.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/04\/trevor-noah-world-south-africa-comedy\/389697\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/04\/trevor-noah-world-south-africa-comedy\/389697<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both men said [Trevor] Noah\u00a0distinguished himself from other comics by resisting labels and \u201cgenre-based comedy.\u201d [Schalk] Bezuidenhout noted that Noah always identified himself as a mixed-race South African raised in straitened circumstances in Soweto without \u201cusing it as a crutch.\u201d Contemporaries who have shared the stage with him say he\u2019s unusually attuned to the audience, [&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":[19983,6001,15219],"class_list":["post-41118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-douglas-foster","tag-the-atlantic","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41118","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=41118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}