{"id":51240,"date":"2017-01-19T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51240"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:12:30","slug":"president-with-a-torpedo-in-his-crotch-how-the-works-of-lubaina-himid-speak-to-trump-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51240","title":{"rendered":"President with a torpedo in his crotch: how the works of Lubaina Himid speak to Trump times"},"content":{"rendered":"

President with a torpedo in his crotch: how the works of Lubaina Himid speak to Trump times<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2017-01-17<\/p>\n

Hettie Judah<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nLubaina Himid<\/a> among the cutouts of slaves that form her 2004 piece Naming the Money<\/em><\/a>, at Spike Island contemporary art centre<\/a> in Bristol<\/a>. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Born in Zanzibar<\/a> and raised in Britain<\/a>, Lubaina Himid<\/a> makes work about everything from slavery to Thatcher<\/a> to the cotton trade. Now in her 60s, she\u2019s finally getting the recognition she deserves<\/em><\/p>\n

Lubaina Himid<\/a> was just four months old when her father died. It was 1954 and her Blackpool<\/a>-born mother decided to leave their home in Zanzibar<\/a> and head back to Britain<\/a>, where she brought her daughter up as a Londoner. Himid would not return to the place of her birth for 43 years…<\/p>\n

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

President with a torpedo in his crotch: how the works of Lubaina Himid speak to Trump times The Guardian 2017-01-17 Hettie Judah Lubaina Himid among the cutouts of slaves that form her 2004 piece Naming the Money, at Spike Island contemporary art centre in Bristol. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Born in Zanzibar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,24,8,10],"tags":[26016,26017,2103,17782],"class_list":["post-51240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-hettie-judah","tag-lubaina-himid","tag-the-guardian","tag-zanzibar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51240","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=51240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51608,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51240\/revisions\/51608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}