{"id":48650,"date":"2016-08-15T17:14:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48650"},"modified":"2016-08-15T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:14:17","slug":"maria-on-%ef%bb%bfbhowani-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48650","title":{"rendered":"Maria on\u00a0\ufeffBhowani Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a2bfour.weebly.com\/a2bfour-blog\/maria-on-bhowani-junction\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Maria on\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Bhowani Junction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a2bfour.weebly.com\/a2bfour-blog\" target=\"_blank\">Archive to Blockbuster<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariaKaladeen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maria Kaladeen<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of London<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a2bfour.weebly.com\/a2bfour-blog\/maria-on-bhowani-junction\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/63\/Bhowani_Junction.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The happiness I feel in encountering old movies about dual-heritage characters and communities is inevitably marred by the regurgitation of tired and offensive stereotypes about these individuals. The 1956 film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhowani_Junction_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bhowani Junction<\/em><\/a>, based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Masters\" target=\"_blank\">John Masters\u2019<\/a> 1954 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhowani_Junction\" target=\"_blank\">novel of the same title<\/a>, is no exception. However the film is fascinating in spite of these stereotypes because it ultimately, and belatedly, makes a powerful statement about the rights of those of mixed heritage to self-identify&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/a2bfour.weebly.com\/a2bfour-blog\/maria-on-bhowani-junction\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria on\u00a0Bhowani Junction Archive to Blockbuster 2016-08-11 Maria Kaladeen, Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London The happiness I feel in encountering old movies about dual-heritage characters and communities is inevitably marred by the regurgitation of tired and offensive stereotypes about these individuals. The 1956 film Bhowani Junction, based on John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,8],"tags":[8567,24737,24738,3520,3522,24736,24739],"class_list":["post-48650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-anglo-indians","tag-archive-to-blockbuster","tag-ava-gardner","tag-bhowani-junction","tag-john-masters","tag-maria-kaladeen","tag-stewart-granger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48650","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=48650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48651,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48650\/revisions\/48651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}