{"id":43511,"date":"2015-10-27T00:32:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43511"},"modified":"2015-10-27T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:47:14","slug":"defying-the-stereotype-of-the-broken-black-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43511","title":{"rendered":"Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/defying-the-stereotype-of-the-broken-black-family\" target=\"_blank\">Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucy_mckeon\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy McKeon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For his series \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zunlee.com\/fatherfigure\" target=\"_blank\">Father Figure<\/a>,\u201d begun in 2011, the photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zunlee.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zun Lee<\/a> created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his daughter\u2019s feet pressed up against his cheek. The project was, in part, a response to Lee\u2019s own personal history: he grew up, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankfurt\" target=\"_blank\">Frankfurt, Germany<\/a>, nurtured by African-American military families who were stationed there; in his thirties, he discovered that his biological father was not the Korean dad he\u2019d grown up with but a black man he\u2019d never met. \u201cFather Figure\u201d is an homage to the surrogate black father figures he\u2019d found growing up, and an exploration of alternatives to the stereotype of the black absentee father.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s latest project, the found-photo series \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/faderesistance.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fade Resistance<\/a>,\u201d continues to challenge racist assumptions of black family dysfunction, this time with Lee acting not as a photographer but as a curator&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and view the photographs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/defying-the-stereotype-of-the-broken-black-family\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family The New Yorker 2015-10-12 Lucy McKeon For his series \u201cFather Figure,\u201d begun in 2011, the photographer Zun Lee created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,414,8,20],"tags":[18715,16819,147,21659,3886,15283],"class_list":["post-43511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lucy-mckeon","tag-new-yorker","tag-photography","tag-polaroid","tag-the-new-yorker","tag-zun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511","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=43511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43513,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions\/43513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}