{"id":53285,"date":"2017-04-07T00:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53285"},"modified":"2017-04-08T02:36:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:36:39","slug":"blaxicans-of-la-challenges-racial-binaries-and-unpacks-the-complexities-of-intersectional-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53285","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlaxicans of LA\u201d challenges racial binaries and unpacks the complexities of intersectional identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/culture\/2017\/04\/05\/blaxicans-la-challenges-racial-binaries-unpacks-complexities-intersectional-identity\/2886952\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cBlaxicans of LA\u201d challenges racial binaries and unpacks the complexities of intersectional identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Occidental Weekly<\/a><br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<br \/>\n2017-04-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/malloryleeper\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mallory Leeper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/culture\/2017\/04\/05\/blaxicans-la-challenges-racial-binaries-unpacks-complexities-intersectional-identity\/2886952\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ebony1.jpg?resize=1024%2C684\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wthdz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><small>Photograph by Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wthdz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, multimedia journalist and current doctoral student at UCLA, visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxy.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Occidental College<\/a> Monday, March 27 to discuss his research, which aims to bridge the gap between academia and photography and popular culture. Thompson-Hernandez\u2019s lecture explored the historical framework of brown and black relations including anti-black sentiments within the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#Terminology\" target=\"_blank\">Latinx<\/a> community. Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez sought to highlight the experiences of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Angelenos<\/a> facing issues of racial classification and assumed singular ethnic identity.<\/p>\n<p>The Latino\/a &amp; Latin American Studies department at Occidental College and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxy.edu\/institute-study-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for the Study of Los Angeles<\/a> (ISLA) co-sponsored the Blaxicans of LA lecture in Fowler 202. As a part of their spring speaker series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxy.edu\/faculty\/raul-villa\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Raul Villa<\/a>, department chair, explained that the event is a part of an educational and promotional campaign to bring awareness about the stdy of Latinxs across the hemisphere to Occidental. According to Villa, Latinx representation is an important component in a global education.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez started the Instagram page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blaxicansofla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaxicans of LA<\/a> to address the complexity of intersectional experiences \u2014 especially those of \u201cBlaxican,\u201d a combination of African and Mexican heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalweekly.com\/culture\/2017\/04\/05\/blaxicans-la-challenges-racial-binaries-unpacks-complexities-intersectional-identity\/2886952\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez, multimedia journalist and current doctoral student at UCLA, visited Occidental College Monday, March 27 to discuss his research, which aims to bridge the gap between academia and photography and popular culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2895,14646,8,20],"tags":[455,787,26793,22835,26605,26792,26604,18064],"class_list":["post-53285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-campus-life","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-los-angeles","tag-mallory-leeper","tag-occidental-college","tag-occidental-weekly","tag-raul-villa","tag-the-occidental-weekly","tag-walter-thompson-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53285","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=53285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53293,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53285\/revisions\/53293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}