{"id":52431,"date":"2017-03-13T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52431"},"modified":"2017-03-13T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:54:44","slug":"the-artist-painting-intimate-portraits-of-interracial-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52431","title":{"rendered":"The Artist Painting Intimate Portraits of Interracial Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Artist Painting Intimate Portraits of Interracial Love<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Broadly<\/a>
\n2017-03-10<\/p>\n

Sheila Regan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case “Loving v. Virginia<\/a>,” which overturned bans on miscegenation, artist Leslie Barlow<\/a> wanted to explore mixed-race identity in a positive, uplifting way.<\/em><\/p>\n

You’d think that 50 years after the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a>, which determined that anti-miscegenation<\/a> laws were unconstitutional in the United States, people would be free to love whomever they want. Tell that to Alissa Paris, who was harassed and called a racial slur while walking in downtown Minneapolis<\/a> with her then-boyfriend a few years ago. They were both mixed race, but most people read Paris as black and her boyfriend as white.<\/p>\n

On February 25, Paris attended an art exhibition with her current partner, Jared, who is also mixed race, at the Public Functionary<\/a> gallery in Minneapolis. There, they saw a portrait of themselves, painted by artist Leslie Barlow<\/a>, as part of a body of work that features mixed-race families and couples. In no time, Paris started to get choked up; it was rare to see mixed-race people portrayed in such an intentional way. “It was really emotional,” she says…<\/p>\n

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