{"id":44340,"date":"2015-11-29T01:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T01:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44340"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:38:49","slug":"love-and-hate-interracial-couples-speak-out-about-the-racism-theyve-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44340","title":{"rendered":"Love and hate: interracial couples speak out about the racism they’ve faced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love and hate: interracial couples speak out about the racism they’ve faced<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2015-11-26<\/p>\n

Nell Frizzell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u2018I asked them to share any negative comments they\u2019d overheard about themselves.\u2019 All photographs by Donna Pinckley<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A couple stand by a flower bed. Her arm is wrapped about his waist like a rose climbing a tree. He rests his cheek on the top of her head. They stare down the lens, their bodies pressed together from thigh to neck in the late afternoon sun. \u201cThey are disgusting\u201d, reads a handwritten caption below the image \u2013 as jarring as a rock to a toe.<\/p>\n

This shot is one of US photographer Donna Pinckley\u2019s<\/a> ongoing series Sticks and Stones<\/a>, which pairs interracial couples with the abuse they\u2019ve received, sometimes directly, sometimes overheard. A southern girl at heart (she tells me that she could never move further north than Little Rock, Arkansas<\/a>, where she lives), Pinckley works in black and white and the couples she depicts include a wide range of ethnicities and sexualities…<\/p>\n

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

Love and hate: interracial couples speak out about the racism they’ve faced The Guardian 2015-11-26 Nell Frizzell \u2018I asked them to share any negative comments they\u2019d overheard about themselves.\u2019 All photographs by Donna Pinckley A couple stand by a flower bed. Her arm is wrapped about his waist like a rose climbing a tree. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,414,8,20],"tags":[21346,22103,147,2103],"class_list":["post-44340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-donna-pinckley","tag-nell-frizzell","tag-photography","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340","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=44340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51633,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340\/revisions\/51633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}