{"id":44122,"date":"2015-11-22T21:44:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44122"},"modified":"2015-11-22T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T21:54:06","slug":"44122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44122","title":{"rendered":"African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Salda\u00f1a Playing Nina Simone"},"content":{"rendered":"

African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Salda\u00f1a Playing Nina Simone<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Upliftt: Latinos in Film, TV and Theater<\/a>
\n2015-11-09<\/p>\n

William Garcia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a recent article from the<\/a> Huffington Post<\/em>, Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a> talks about the Nina Simone biopic<\/a> that has been controversial all over the Black blogospheres. Salda\u00f1a said: \u201cthe people behind the project weren\u2019t my cup of tea.\u201d She also said, \u201cthe director was fine but there was a lot of mismanagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

On June 11th 2015, during an InStyle<\/em> magazine interview<\/a>, Zoe Salda\u00f1a said: \u201cI think I was right for the part, and I know a lot of people will agree, but then again I don\u2019t think Elizabeth Taylor<\/a> was right for Cleopatra<\/a><\/em> either.\u201d Those comments may seem, in a sense, post-racial, especially after defending African-American actor, Michael B. Jordan<\/a>, for playing the Human Torch<\/a> in the Fantastic Four<\/em><\/a> Film.<\/p>\n

The Black Movement in the United States has only paid a particular attention to blackness\u2014leaving out Afro-Latinos as \u201cnot being really black.\u201d Being Black in the U.S is equated with being African-American in a time where there is a continuous migration from Africa, the Caribbean and Afro-Latin America. The Black Movement in the U.S invisibilizes Afro-Latinos amongst other Afro-descendants in a time when all<\/em> Black Lives Should Matter. Many African-Americans in the U.S created a controversy over Zoe Salda\u00f1a playing Nina Simone<\/a>. There were several articles published infuriated with her allegedly \u201cplaying a blackface\u201d and being a self-loathing Dominican\u2013although most of these articles also forget she is half Puerto Rican. During a Hip-Hollywood.com<\/em> interview<\/a>, Zoe Salda\u00f1a clearly states she identifies as a Black woman, but that comment was omitted from many conversations…<\/p>\n

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African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Salda\u00f1a Playing Nina Simone Upliftt: Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-11-09 William Garcia In a recent article from the Huffington Post, Zoe Salda\u00f1a talks about the Nina Simone biopic that has been controversial all over the Black blogospheres. Salda\u00f1a said: \u201cthe people behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,14646,1196,8,20],"tags":[11836,19887,19888,11840],"class_list":["post-44122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-latino","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-nina-simone","tag-upliftt","tag-william-garcia","tag-zoe-saldana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44122","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=44122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44124,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44122\/revisions\/44124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}