{"id":50383,"date":"2016-12-01T02:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50383"},"modified":"2016-12-02T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T01:25:19","slug":"we-are-not-belligerent-dark-or-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50383","title":{"rendered":"We are not \u201cbelligerent,\u201d \u201cdark\u201d or\u00a0\u201cbitter\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2016\/11\/29\/we-are-not-belligerent-dark-or-bitter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>We are not \u201cbelligerent,\u201d \u201cdark\u201d or\u00a0\u201cbitter\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\" target=\"_blank\">Media Diversified<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/girloguns\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tele Ogunyemi<\/strong><\/a>, Co-founder<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/diasporaphiles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Diaspora Philes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yasmin_Alibhai-Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Yasmin Alibhai-Brown\u2019s<\/a> recent article \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50369\" target=\"_blank\">Blend it like Britain<\/a>\u2019 is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the <em>Sunday Times Magazine<\/em> to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amma_Asante\" target=\"_blank\">Amma Asante\u2019s<\/a> new film \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">A United Kingdom<\/a>\u2019, the article is littered with racist or otherwise problematic assertions about people of colour, and their role in creating a modern multicultural Britain. Alibhai-Brown\u2019s article seeks to explore the role of white women in building a \u2018multicultural\u2019 Britain, but is laced with rhetoric that casually dehumanizes people of colour. [Chief amongst these lazy tropes are toxic portrayals of an exotic and dangerous black masculinity in contrast to a pristine, \u201cmiddle class\u201d white womanhood.<\/p>\n<p>Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes that \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> goes way back and deep down in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">Great Britain<\/a>. Much of this integration is thanks to an unsung history of white British women who defied social norms to follow their hearts.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>We do not doubt that white women in relationships with men of colour played a part in this demographic change in society. However, by placing white British women at the centre of a narrative about multicultural nationhood, Alibhai-Brown erases the contributions of millions of immigrants who have come to the UK and done the difficult work of integrating into a new society whilst enriching Britain with the best elements of their cultures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/mediadiversified.org\/2016\/11\/29\/we-are-not-belligerent-dark-or-bitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not \u201cbelligerent,\u201d \u201cdark\u201d or\u00a0\u201cbitter\u201d Media Diversified 2016-11-29 Tele Ogunyemi, Co-founder Diaspora Philes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown\u2019s recent article \u2018Blend it like Britain\u2019 is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the Sunday Times Magazine to promote Amma Asante\u2019s new film \u2018A United Kingdom\u2019, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,459,8,10],"tags":[16878,25607,804],"class_list":["post-50383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-media-diversified","tag-tele-ogunyemi","tag-yasmin-alibhai-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50383","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=50383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50385,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50383\/revisions\/50385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}