{"id":44540,"date":"2015-12-09T03:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T03:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44540"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:44:23","slug":"chasing-daybreak-a-film-about-mixed-race-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44540","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/events\/chasing-daybreak-film-about-mixed-race-america\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>University of Michigan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/shapiro-undergraduate-library\" target=\"_blank\">Shapiro Undergraduate Library<\/a><br \/>\n919 South University Avenue<br \/>\nScreening Room 2160<br \/>\nAnn Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185<br \/>\n<strong>2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/users\/kdown\" target=\"_blank\">Karen E Downing<\/a><\/strong>, Host Contact<\/p>\n<p><i>This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a monoracially conceived world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mavinfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">MAVIN Foundation<\/a>, the nation&#8217;s largest mixed race organization, sponsored the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavinfoundation.org\/projects\/generation_mix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Generation MIX National Awareness Tour<\/a> to raise awareness of America&#8217;s multiracial baby boom. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavinfoundation.org\/chasingdaybreak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing Daybreak<\/a><\/em> (2006, 71 min.) follows the five Generation MIX crew members as they travel 10,000 miles across the country in a 26-foot <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recreational_vehicle\" target=\"_blank\">R.V.<\/a> and spark discussions on race, mixed race and diversity. As the crew meets with hundreds of people from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Senator Barack Obama<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Bubba\" target=\"_blank\">Bubba<\/a> the tow truck driver, they share their hopes, fears and aspirations for the future of race in America.<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be followed by a discussion. For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/events\/chasing-daybreak-film-about-mixed-race-america\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,26,20,842],"tags":[22228,1722,3804],"class_list":["post-44540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-karen-e-downing","tag-mavin-foundation","tag-university-of-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44540","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=44540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44541,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44540\/revisions\/44541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}