{"id":47632,"date":"2016-06-14T01:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47632"},"modified":"2016-06-14T01:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:21:51","slug":"yara-shahidi-the-iranian-american-star-of-black-ish-is-breaking-stereotypes-on-off-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47632","title":{"rendered":"Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of \u2018Black-ish,\u2019 Is Breaking Stereotypes On &#038; Off Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muftah.org\/yara-shahidi-iranian-american-star-black-ish-breaking-stereotypes-off-screen\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of \u2018Black-ish,\u2019 Is Breaking Stereotypes On &amp; Off Screen<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muftah.org\" target=\"_blank\">Muftah<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seyyedreza\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alex Shams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, the hit ABC sitcom \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black-ish\" target=\"_blank\">Black-ish<\/a>\u201d has deftly explored issues of race, class, and gender in the United States through the eyes of an upper-middle class, African-American family. The show has received rave reviews for portraying the unique struggles of the Johnson family, offering an incisive critique of racism in modern America without being too preachy.<\/p>\n<p>What few people know, however, is that the role of Zoey, the Johnson\u2019s eldest daughter, is played by a sixteen-year-old, Iranian-American actress. Born to an Iranian father, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afshinshahidi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afshin Shahidi<\/a>, and a mother of mixed African-American and Native Choctaw heritage, Keri Salter, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yara_Shahidi\" target=\"_blank\">Yara Shahidi<\/a> lived in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis<\/a> before moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> at a young age&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/muftah.org\/yara-shahidi-iranian-american-star-black-ish-breaking-stereotypes-off-screen\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of \u2018Black-ish,\u2019 Is Breaking Stereotypes On &amp; Off Screen Muftah 2016-06-03 Alex Shams Over the last two years, the hit ABC sitcom \u201cBlack-ish\u201d has deftly explored issues of race, class, and gender in the United States through the eyes of an upper-middle class, African-American family. The show has received rave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[24103,18362,24102,22129],"class_list":["post-47632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alex-shams","tag-black-ish","tag-muftah","tag-yara-shahidi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47632","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=47632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47633,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47632\/revisions\/47633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}