{"id":41338,"date":"2015-06-09T00:57:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T00:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41338"},"modified":"2015-06-09T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T00:57:50","slug":"why-media-representation-matters-to-biracial-and-multiracial-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41338","title":{"rendered":"Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bluenationreview.com\/why-media-representation-matters-to-biracial-and-multiracial-people\" target=\"_blank\">Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluenationreview.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Nation Review<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jpbrammer\" target=\"_blank\">John Paul Brammer<\/a><\/strong>, Identity Editor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019re sort of nothing then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve only heard this once. Someone asked me what my race was because they were curious. I explained to them that I was mixed, that I had both indigenous and European blood, and after mulling it over for a second, that was their response.<\/p>\n<p>They meant no malice by it. If anything, they were trying to be playful. But it still reminded me that when it comes to the dominant narratives on how we perceive <a href=\"http:\/\/bluenationreview.com\/what-i-learned-from-watching-fresh-off-the-boat\/\" target=\"_blank\">race and culture<\/a> in this country, I don\u2019t quite fit the story.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of this again with the debate over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Stone\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Stone\u2019s<\/a> multiracial character in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameron_Crowe\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Crowe\u2019s<\/a> certified stinker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aloha_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Aloha<\/em><\/a>. Stone, a white woman, was cast to portray a half-white, quarter-Chinese, quarter-Native Hawaiian character by the name of Allison Ng.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe has come forward and apologized for his decision. But casting Stone in the first place has opened a very necessary dialogue on multiracial characters in the media.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the media diversity debate, multiracial people exist in a precarious place. On the one hand, they seem to be left out for the sake of a more direct approach to criticism of media <a href=\"http:\/\/bluenationreview.com\/modern-family-gay-representation-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">representation of minorities<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/bluenationreview.com\/why-media-representation-matters-to-biracial-and-multiracial-people\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People Blue Nation Review 2015-06-04 John Paul Brammer, Identity Editor \u201cSo, you\u2019re sort of nothing then.\u201d I\u2019ve only heard this once. Someone asked me what my race was because they were curious. I explained to them that I was mixed, that I had both indigenous and European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,8,20],"tags":[20193,20192,20159,20162,20191],"class_list":["post-41338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-aloha","tag-blue-nation-review","tag-cameron-crowe","tag-emma-stone","tag-john-paul-brammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41338","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=41338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}