{"id":47023,"date":"2016-05-18T20:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47023"},"modified":"2017-03-08T00:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T00:17:20","slug":"michael-dixon-a-discussion-about-race-representation-and-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47023","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dixon: A Discussion About Race, Representation, and Biracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordoesitexplode.com\/#!Michael-Dixon-A-Discussion-About-Race-Representation-and-Biracial-Identity\/pidwk\/56e5a6850cf26296007f90ad\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Michael Dixon: A Discussion About Race, Representation, and Biracial Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordoesitexplode.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Or Does It Explode<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tashamathew\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tasha Mathew<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaeldixonart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Dixon<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a>-born artist who teaches as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albion.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-and-art-history\/faculty-and-staff\" target=\"_blank\">associate professor at Albion College<\/a> and was recently awarded studio space in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> through the <a href=\"http:\/\/thestudioprogram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program<\/a>. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon explores the personal experiences of biracial blacks, including an immersive investigation into his own experiences. As such, concepts of social psychology condense within each portrait &#8211; concepts such as social identity theory and self-categorization theory &#8211; allowing us to explore our identification with one particular group over another.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent projects include <a href=\"http:\/\/michaeldixonart.com\/section\/424875-Shared-Histories-Turkey-2011-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shared Histories\/Turkey<\/em><\/a>: an investigations into Turkish, biracial blacks and <a href=\"http:\/\/michaeldixonart.com\/section\/424926-The-More-Things-Change-the-More-They-Stay-the-Same.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The More Things Change, The More Things Stay The Same<\/em><\/a>: a reflection upon the recent killings of unarmed black men&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordoesitexplode.com\/#!Michael-Dixon-A-Discussion-About-Race-Representation-and-Biracial-Identity\/pidwk\/56e5a6850cf26296007f90ad\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dixon is a California-born artist who teaches as an associate professor at Albion College and was recently awarded studio space in New York through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,13743,8,20],"tags":[23799,23798,23797,11825],"class_list":["post-47023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-michael-dixon","tag-or-does-it-explode","tag-tasha-mathew","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023","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=47023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52221,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47023\/revisions\/52221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}