{"id":45756,"date":"2016-02-24T03:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45756"},"modified":"2016-02-24T03:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:53:35","slug":"visions-of-obama-in-americas-ghettos%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45756","title":{"rendered":"Visions of Obama in America\u2019s Ghettos\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/visions-of-obama-in-americas-ghettos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visions of Obama in America\u2019s Ghettos<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-12<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/camilojosevergara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camilo Jos\u00e9 Vergara<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/visions-of-obama-in-americas-ghettos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/5-DSC_3184_img.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small> \u201cObama es el Presidente, Obama es para todos.\u201d Painting by Chuy Vasquez. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luismarket.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Meat Market<\/a>, 42nd Place at South Vermont Avenue, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a>, 2013. (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/camilojosevergara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camilo Vergara<\/a><\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>From churches to gas stations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Documenting the murals that decorate the walls of barbershops, restaurants, butcher shops, storefront churches and liquor stores in poor, minority communities has been a decades-long interest of mine. These examples of popular art employ a relatively small range of symbols, motifs, and iconic figures to remind people of their roots and aspirations. When <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> was elected in 2008, I knew that his likeness would soon be featured in ghettos across the nation, and so I searched inner-city neighborhoods for his portraits and interviewed artists and neighborhood residents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In African-American neighborhoods, President Obama is frequently depicted as a powerful man of action. Folk portraits of him express pride that a black person was able to achieve the presidency, something few believed possible. He is often accompanied by such symbols of American power as the eagle and the American flag&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/visions-of-obama-in-americas-ghettos\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visions of Obama in America\u2019s Ghettos The Nation 2016-02-12 Camilo Jos\u00e9 Vergara \u201cObama es el Presidente, Obama es para todos.\u201d Painting by Chuy Vasquez. Luis Meat Market, 42nd Place at South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 2013. (Camilo Vergara) From churches to gas stations. Documenting the murals that decorate the walls of barbershops, restaurants, butcher shops, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,8,20],"tags":[23055,2831],"class_list":["post-45756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-camilo-jose-vergara","tag-the-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756","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=45756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45757,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions\/45757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}