{"id":48734,"date":"2016-08-19T00:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48734"},"modified":"2016-08-19T00:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:34:03","slug":"richard-pryors-daughter-opens-up-about-the-racism-her-family-faced-in-beverly-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48734","title":{"rendered":"Richard Pryor\u2019s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/richard-pryor-daughter-racism_us_57b48e7ae4b0edfa80daa58c\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Richard Pryor\u2019s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lisawrites\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lisa Capretto<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Oprah Winfrey Network<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m a product of this thing that everyone was against.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rain_Pryor\" target=\"_blank\">Rain Pryor<\/a> was born in 1969, her father, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Pryor\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Pryor<\/a>, had already begun transitioning from a relatively mild joke-telling comedian to a fearless, outspoken comic whose routines doubled as raw social commentary. As Pryor\u2019s comedy was shifting, so was the country, moving toward more progressive values. But, as his daughter Rain points out, blatant racism still affected countless families, including her own.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with \u201cOprah: Where Are They Now?\u201d, the 47-year-old actress opened up about her childhood, setting the scene for what her interracial family faced during that time in their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beverly_Hills,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Beverly Hills<\/a> community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad\u2019s Richard Pryor. My mother, Shelley, was a poor Jewish woman,\u201d Rain says. \u201cImagine, if you will, Beverly Hills in the early \u201870s. Here I am, this mixed-race child [with] my golden skin, my big poufy hair \u2015 because Mom knew nothing about a pressing comb \u2015 [and] my mom\u2019s blond-haired, blue-eyed, looking like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cher\" target=\"_blank\">Cher<\/a>, wearing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dashiki\" target=\"_blank\">dashikis<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/richard-pryor-daughter-racism_us_57b48e7ae4b0edfa80daa58c\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Pryor\u2019s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills The Huffington Post 2016-08-18 Lisa Capretto The Oprah Winfrey Network \u201cI\u2019m a product of this thing that everyone was against.\u201d When Rain Pryor was born in 1969, her father, Richard Pryor, had already begun transitioning from a relatively mild joke-telling comedian [&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":[10108,14359,14357,24795,2425],"class_list":["post-48734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-huffington-post","tag-rain-pryor","tag-richard-pryor","tag-shelley-pryor","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48734","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=48734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48735,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48734\/revisions\/48735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}