{"id":48773,"date":"2016-08-22T23:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48773"},"modified":"2016-11-09T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:44:54","slug":"michaela-angela-davis-strips-down-for-the-whats-underneath-project-talks-racism-insecurities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48773","title":{"rendered":"Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The \u201cWhat\u2019s Underneath Project,\u201d Talks Racism, Insecurities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madamenoire.com\/713583\/michaela-angela-davis-strips-down-for-the-whats-underneath-project-talks-racism-insecurities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The \u201cWhat\u2019s Underneath Project,\u201d Talks Racism, Insecurities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madamenoire.com\/713583\/michaela-angela-davis-strips-down-for-the-whats-underneath-project-talks-racism-insecurities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Noire<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Be_Vic\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brande Victorian<\/strong><\/a>, Managing Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michaela_Angela_Davis\" target=\"_blank\">Michaela Angela Davis<\/a> has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for<a href=\"http:\/\/stylelikeu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em> StyleLikeU\u2019s<\/em><\/a> highly regarded \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/stylelikeu.com\/category\/the-whats-underneath-project-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s Underneath Project<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And we\u2019re thankful for that. Here are the highlights from Davis\u2019 interview:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On assumptions people make about her because of how she looks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first, sort of obvious assumption is that I\u2019m mixed race\u2013 like one parent is white, one parent is Black \u2014 and it\u2019s not so. Both of my parents are light-skinned and Black. Both of my parents are products of what I call the great horror story of America and the great love story of America. In order to survive, often families would marry other light-skinned Blacks to stay alive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/au4xPfATEtA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/madamenoire.com\/713583\/michaela-angela-davis-strips-down-for-the-whats-underneath-project-talks-racism-insecurities\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The \u201cWhat\u2019s Underneath Project,\u201d Talks Racism, Insecurities Madame Noire 2016-08-22 Brande Victorian, Managing Editor Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU\u2019s highly regarded \u201cWhat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,13743,8,20,842,25],"tags":[24823,17706,12980,24824,24822],"class_list":["post-48773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-brande-victorian","tag-madame-noire","tag-michaela-angela-davis","tag-stylelikeu","tag-whats-underneath-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773","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=48773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48774,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions\/48774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}