{"id":46441,"date":"2016-04-02T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46441"},"modified":"2016-04-02T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T18:16:03","slug":"what-does-my-body-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46441","title":{"rendered":"What Does my Body Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/what-does-my-body-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\">What Does my Body Mean?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carly-bates-b3136398\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Bates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/what-does-my-body-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carly-Headshot-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carly-bates-b3136398\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Bates<\/a> (Photo by: Bethany Brown)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>As a student of jazz at my university, I often occupy white male dominated spaces. I am the only woman of color (a black\/white biracial woman) in a jazz history class, \u201cJazz Musicians as Composers,\u201d a course that explores the gray areas of jazz as a concert music. Sometimes, I wonder if I can give myself permission to be a woman of color in this space. In a discussion surrounding the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Insist!\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Now Suite<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Roach\" target=\"_blank\">Max Roach\u2019s<\/a> response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greensboro_sit-ins\" target=\"_blank\">Greensboro sit ins<\/a>, I have 75 minutes to say something\u2014anything\u2014 so that my professor doesn\u2019t think that I\u2019m \u201cjust a shy student.\u201d Rather, I negotiate with myself for 75 minutes what I am allowed to say, how what I say is a reflection of the body I occupy. Pressure mounts as someone questions the rigidity of jazz as a \u201cblack\u201d art form. Pressure mounts as students discuss the auto-exoticism of African-American jazz musicians. Pressure mounts as the professor asks if anyone has ever felt that they had to represent a group of people, to act as a monolith. I scream silently: \u201cYes, every time I enter your class. Every time, for 75 minutes, I measure the amount of voice and the amount of blackness that I allow myself to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does my body mean here?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.com\/what-does-my-body-mean\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does my Body Mean? Mixed Roots Stories 2016-03-30 Carly Bates Carly Bates (Photo by: Bethany Brown) As a student of jazz at my university, I often occupy white male dominated spaces. I am the only woman of color (a black\/white biracial woman) in a jazz history class, \u201cJazz Musicians as Composers,\u201d a course that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,8,20],"tags":[23407,15960],"class_list":["post-46441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-carly-bates","tag-mixed-roots-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46441","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=46441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46442,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46441\/revisions\/46442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}