{"id":51495,"date":"2017-02-11T02:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51495"},"modified":"2017-02-11T02:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:19:27","slug":"reel-representation-amma-asantes-films-adeptly-portray-multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51495","title":{"rendered":"Reel Representation: Amma Asante\u2019s films adeptly portray multiracial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2017\/02\/09\/reel-representation-amma-asantes-films-adeptly-portray-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Reel Representation: Amma Asante\u2019s films adeptly portray multiracial identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailybruin.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Bruin<\/a><br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<br \/>\n2017-02-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olivemylife\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Olivia Mazzucato<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2016\/01\/26\/reels-notes-takes-week-4-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">#OscarsSoWhite<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/02\/22\/467665890\/hollywood-has-a-major-diversity-problem-usc-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\">USC study<\/a> in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial\/ethnic groups. In \u201cReel Representation,\u201d columnist Olivia Mazzucato discusses different issues of race and representation in media as they relate to new movies and TV shows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The closest I\u2019ve ever felt to seeing myself on screen is when I watched the film \u201cBelle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belle_(2013_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Belle<\/a>\u201d tells the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dido_Elizabeth_Belle\" target=\"_blank\">Dido Elizabeth Belle<\/a>, the daughter of an enslaved African woman and a white British officer. She\u2019s brought to England and raised by her uncle, an earl and the Lord Chief Justice, and finds herself facing a choice between two men \u2013 a poor vicar\u2019s son, whom she loves, and a naive aristocrat with a bigoted family. Throughout the film, she tries to reconcile her identities, both as an heiress in the British upper class and as a black woman struggling to find her place in a shifting society.<\/p>\n<p>I may not be able to relate directly to Dido\u2019s life, but her struggles with identity are all too familiar to me.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who is biracial \u2013 half Italian-American and half Japanese-American \u2013 it\u2019s difficult to process my identity, particularly when it comes to seeing myself represented in media. I don\u2019t look like the white female characters I see, nor the few Asian characters that occasionally grace the screen. On some level, I feel like I\u2019ll never truly be represented because my identity is so specific&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2017\/02\/09\/reel-representation-amma-asantes-films-adeptly-portray-multiracial-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reel Representation: Amma Asante\u2019s films adeptly portray multiracial identity The Daily Bruin Los Angeles, California 2017-02-09 Olivia Mazzucato Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial\/ethnic groups. In \u201cReel Representation,\u201d columnist Olivia Mazzucato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8413,125,8,20],"tags":[15678,3032,26188,9596],"class_list":["post-51495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-communications","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amma-asante","tag-daily-bruin","tag-olivia-mazzucato","tag-the-daily-bruin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51495","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=51495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51496,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51495\/revisions\/51496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}