{"id":44542,"date":"2015-12-09T03:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44542"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:43:38","slug":"crossing-the-line-multiracial-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44542","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/events\/crossing-line-multiracial-comedians\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians<\/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>2016-01-21, 16:00-17:00 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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/events\/crossing-line-multiracial-comedians\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mlibrary_left_column_thumb\/public\/events\/crossingtheline.jpg?itok=W03mq3Yz\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This full-length documentary (2007, 59 mins.) analyzes how mixed-race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability by their very existence, multiracial comedians reveal that meanings of race vary across ethnic combination, gender, place, and time.<\/p>\n<p>The film features the experiences, perspectives, and performances of American comedians of more than one racial ancestry. The timeliness of multiracial comedians&#8217; roles as crossracial mediators is underscored as they provide insight into controversies over how comedians express race (i.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Richards#Laugh_Factory_incident\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Richards&#8217; use of the N-word<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosie_O%27Donnell\" target=\"_blank\">Rosie O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s<\/a> slurs), and other debated meanings of race in an increasingly diverse society. Exploring these questions exposes the very nature of where pain and laughter come from in a racially divided world.<\/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>This film will be followed by discussion. For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/events\/crossing-line-multiracial-comedians\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-21, 16:00-17:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This full-length documentary (2007, 59 mins.) analyzes how mixed-race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. 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