{"id":55848,"date":"2018-03-06T19:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55848"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:32:11","slug":"a-different-portrait-of-black-fatherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55848","title":{"rendered":"A different portrait of black fatherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in-pictures-43159310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A different portrait of black fatherhood<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in_pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Pictures<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2018-03-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in-pictures-43159310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/A085\/production\/_100139014_anthonyfrancis_033.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zunlee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><small>Zun Lee<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zunlee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zun Lee<\/a> was raised in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a> by Korean parents &#8211; but as an adult he discovered his real father was a black American with whom his mother had had a brief affair.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After this discovery, he began to explore fatherhood among black Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Lee says the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a> media mainly portrays black fathers in one of two ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the absent father, often portrayed as a &#8220;deadbeat&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the traditional family patriarch, as seen in TV programmes such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And his project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronxdoc.org\/exhibits\/father-figure-exploring-alternate-notions-of-black-fatherhood\/detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on display at the Bronx Documentary Centre<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>, aims for a more balanced and nuanced portrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in-pictures-43159310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zun Lee was raised in Germany by Korean parents &#8211; but as an adult he discovered his real father was a black American with whom his mother had had a brief affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,414,8,20],"tags":[5697,8597,147,15283],"class_list":["post-55848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-photography","tag-zun-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55848","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=55848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55849,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55848\/revisions\/55849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}