{"id":50433,"date":"2016-12-04T01:33:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50433"},"modified":"2016-12-04T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T01:33:15","slug":"artist-explodes-racial-stereotypes-in-shape-shifting-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50433","title":{"rendered":"Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2016-10-20<\/p>\n

Priscilla Frank<\/strong><\/a>, Arts & Culture Writer<\/p>\n

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\nShulamit Nazarian<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

\u201cMy experience as a person of color is different than others\u2019. I have something to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Artist Genevieve Gaignard<\/a> grew up in the town of Orange, Massachusetts<\/a>. Her mother was white, her father black \u2015 one of the first black men to live in the small town.\u00a0\u201cI was always really aware that we were different,\u201d Gaignard explained in an interview with The Huffington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While Gaignard was well aware of her biracial identity, most of her classmates and neighborhood acquaintances simply saw her as the pale-skinned, redheaded child she was. They assumed, in other words, like the majority of Orange citizens, that Gaignard was white. \u201cI passed <\/a>along with everyone else,\u201d she said. \u201cI blended in.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a kid, Gaignard spent a lot of time in her room. \u201cI was shy, quiet, in my own little world,\u201d she recalled. She would listen to the radio, make collages and plaster magazine cutouts on her wall.\u00a0She\u2019d also obsessively look into the lives of celebrities like Mariah Carey<\/a> and Alicia Keys<\/a>, women who also were both black and white.\u00a0She studied how they defined themselves, the spaces they occupied and the ways they existed in the world.\u00a0\u201cI would think, \u2018Oh, they get to be black,\u2019 or, \u2018They\u2019re kind of passing as white<\/a>,\u2019\u201d Gaignard said. \u201cI would search for images of their parents, trying to get clues. It\u2019s interesting how media or the industry often decides where someone will fit in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cBasic Cable\u201d Shulamit Nazarian<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

With no outside force to define her<\/em>, Gaignard was left, like so many young people, feeling undefined. \u201cIt was this not knowing how to identify,\u201d she expressed. \u201cNot feeling black enough, not feeling white enough, that was the struggle.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs The Huffington Post 2016-10-20 Priscilla Frank, Arts & Culture Writer Shulamit Nazarian \u201cMy experience as a person of color is different than others\u2019. I have something to say.\u201d Artist Genevieve Gaignard grew up in the town of Orange, Massachusetts. Her mother was white, her father black \u2015 one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,20],"tags":[22811,10108,147,20822,2425],"class_list":["post-50433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-genevieve-gaignard","tag-huffington-post","tag-photography","tag-priscilla-frank","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433","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=50433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50434,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions\/50434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}