{"id":41132,"date":"2015-05-15T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=41132"},"modified":"2015-05-15T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:14:22","slug":"black-miss-japan-fights-for-race-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41132","title":{"rendered":"Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Agence France Presse<\/a> (via Yahoo)
\n2015-05-12<\/p>\n

Alastair Himmer<\/a><\/strong>, Sport and Lifestyle Correspondent<\/p>\n

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\nAriana Miyamoto<\/small><\/p>\n

Tokyo (AFP) – Ariana Miyamoto<\/a> entered the Miss Universe Japan beauty contest after a mixed-race friend committed suicide. And she endured abuse after winning the crown because of her skin colour.<\/p>\n

Far from being put off by the backlash, Miyamoto resolved to use her new-found fame to help fight racial prejudice — in much the same way British supermodel Naomi Campbell broke down cultural barriers in the fashion industry a generation ago.<\/p>\n

“I’m stubborn,” said Miyamoto, the daughter of a Japanese mother and black American father, who turned 21 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I was prepared for the criticism. I’d be lying to say it didn’t hurt at all. I’m Japanese — I stand up and bow when I answer the phone. But that criticism did give me extra motivation,” she told AFP in an interview.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t feel any added pressure because the reason I took part in the pageant was my friend’s death. My goal was to raise awareness of racial discrimination,” added Miyamoto, who was bullied as a schoolgirl growing up in the port town of Sasebo<\/a>, near Nagasaki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Now I have a great platform to deliver that message as the first black Miss Universe Japan. It’s always hard to be the first, so in that respect what Naomi Campbell<\/a> did was really amazing.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’ Agence France Presse (via Yahoo) 2015-05-12 Alastair Himmer, Sport and Lifestyle Correspondent Ariana Miyamoto Tokyo (AFP) – Ariana Miyamoto entered the Miss Universe Japan beauty contest after a mixed-race friend committed suicide. And she endured abuse after winning the crown because of her skin colour. Far from being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8],"tags":[20084,9233,20083,19675,1793],"class_list":["post-41132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-afp","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-alastair-himmer","tag-ariana-miyamoto","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132","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=41132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}