{"id":48881,"date":"2016-08-28T01:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T01:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48881"},"modified":"2016-08-28T01:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T01:37:29","slug":"kanye-collaborator-vanessa-beecroft-reveals-a-common-misconception-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48881","title":{"rendered":"Kanye Collaborator Vanessa Beecroft Reveals A Common Misconception About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye Collaborator Vanessa Beecroft Reveals A Common Misconception About Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\n2016-08-09<\/p>\n

Tricia Tongco<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vanessa Beecroft<\/a> is best known as the artist who has collaborated with Kanye West<\/a> on several of the rapper\u2019s most noteworthy visuals, from the \u201cRunaway\u201d mini-movie to the Yeezy Season 3<\/a> fashion show.<\/p>\n

But thanks to a recently published profile<\/a> in New York Magazine<\/em>, Beecroft is gaining notoriety in her own right. In the piece, she makes several bizarre statements, but her first quote in the piece is probably the most questionable:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have divided my personality,\u201d she says. \u201cThere is Vanessa Beecroft as a European white female, and then there is Vanessa Beecroft as Kanye, an African-American male.\u201d Later she tells me, \u201cI even did a DNA test<\/a> thinking maybe I am black? I actually wasn\u2019t. I was kind of disappointed, and I don\u2019t want to believe it. I want to do it again, because when I work with Africans or African-Americans, I feel that I am autobiographical. If I don\u2019t call myself white, maybe I am not.\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…The mainstream belief in the scientific community is that race is a social construct<\/a> without biological meaning, with research demonstrating that genetic differences are not fixed along racial lines.<\/p>\n

By that logic, there\u2019s nothing wrong with what Vanity Fair<\/em> describes as Beecroft\u2019s \u201cchoose-your-own-race views<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, as a white woman from Italy<\/a>, Beecroft is able to propose that choice from a place of privilege, while her black collaborator Kanye cannot. Also, no matter what racial identity she \u201cfeels\u201d or identifies with at any given moment, she still benefits from white privilege<\/a>, because she looks white and others treat her as such…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kanye Collaborator Vanessa Beecroft Reveals A Common Misconception About Race Attn: 2016-08-09 Tricia Tongco Vanessa Beecroft is best known as the artist who has collaborated with Kanye West on several of the rapper\u2019s most noteworthy visuals, from the \u201cRunaway\u201d mini-movie to the Yeezy Season 3 fashion show. But thanks to a recently published profile in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[24888,24889,24793],"class_list":["post-48881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-attn","tag-tricia-tongco","tag-vanessa-beecroft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881","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=48881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48882,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions\/48882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}