{"id":42091,"date":"2015-08-02T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42091"},"modified":"2015-08-02T02:18:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T02:18:16","slug":"this-instagram-project-is-giving-a-voice-to-the-blaxican-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42091","title":{"rendered":"This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the \u201cBlaxican\u201d Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/meet-the-instagram-project-giving-a-voice-to-the-blaxican-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the \u201cBlaxican\u201d Experience<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\" target=\"_blank\">Remezcla<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-28<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarayimon\" target=\"_blank\">Yara Sim\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The history of race in the United States is often told in terms of black and white, a binary that leaves many out of the equation. \u201cBlaxican\u201d researcher Walter Thompson-Hernandez is trying to expand the conversation, with a project that features people who, like him, are African-American and Mexican. As part of a research project for the <a href=\"http:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/csii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC<\/a>, where he works, he began interviewing people of \u201cBlaxican\u201d identity. The personal stories inspired him to take his project beyond academia and onto social media. So he started <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/blaxicansofla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaxicans of L.A.<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instagram\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> to share what he was seeing firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>Blaxicans are dual minorities,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/moments\/la-me-scm-blaxicans-20150715-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">told the<em> Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe represent two of the largest ethnic minority groups. And I think because Blaxicans represent two of the most aggrieved groups in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>, it\u2019s important to understand that certain sets of issues and challenges that have been traditionally labeled as African American or Latino, ultimately, do not exist for people who self-identify as Blaxicans.\u201d They are affected by both the killings of unarmed black men by police and mass deportations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/meet-the-instagram-project-giving-a-voice-to-the-blaxican-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the \u201cBlaxican\u201d Experience Remezcla 2015-07-28 Yara Sim\u00f3n The history of race in the United States is often told in terms of black and white, a binary that leaves many out of the equation. \u201cBlaxican\u201d researcher Walter Thompson-Hernandez is trying to expand the conversation, with a project that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,24,14646,8,20],"tags":[20577,455,787,19464,18064,20576],"class_list":["post-42091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-arts","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-blaxicans-of-l-a","tag-california","tag-los-angeles","tag-remezcla","tag-walter-thompson-hernandez","tag-yara-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42091","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=42091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42094,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42091\/revisions\/42094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}