{"id":56140,"date":"2018-04-04T22:21:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T22:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56140"},"modified":"2018-04-06T02:54:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T02:54:23","slug":"mixing-up-identity-race-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56140","title":{"rendered":"Mixing up identity, race and culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixing up identity, race and culture<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Now<\/a>
\nToronto, Ontario
\n2018-03-28<\/p>\n

Samantha Edwards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nZo\u00e9 Doyle<\/a> (left) and Vanessa Trenton<\/a> star in a new production of the groundbreaking play<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

MIXIE & THE HALF BREEDS<\/a> written by Julie Tamiko Manning<\/a> and Adrienne Wong<\/a>, directed by Jenna Rodgers<\/a>. Presented by fu-GEN Theatre Company<\/a> at the Pia Bouman School for Ballet (6 Noble). Previews from Tuesday (April 3), opens April 5 and runs to April 15. $15-$35.<\/em><\/p>\n

Growing up, Julie Tamiko Manning<\/a> didn\u2019t know many people who looked like her. Manning is half-Japanese and half-white, a hybrid identity that made her stick out in her hometown in the Eastern Townships of Quebec<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, when Manning was in her 20s, she went to Vancouver<\/a> for the first time and found herself working with a cast made up entirely of mixed race people. During that trip, she became friends with Adrienne Wong<\/a>, a half-Chinese, half-white playwright and actor originally from Calgary<\/a> and now based in Ottawa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdrienne and I totally bonded over being mixies,\u201d says Manning, who now lives in Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what the mix is, there\u2019s a very similar experience that you have lived as a mixed race person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Manning, I\u2019m half-Japanese and half-white, and I understand why she and Wong felt an immediate kinship. Mixed race people \u2013 or \u201cmixies,\u201d as some of us like to call ourselves \u2013 have a special, almost familial connection to one another. We can spot a fellow mixie from across a crowded streetcar or in the most minor roles in a movie. We can relate to strangers constantly asking us, \u201cWhere are you from? No, where are you really<\/em> from?\u201d or feeling culturally estranged from both sides of our identity.<\/p>\n

These ideas of identity, race and culture in Canadian society are explored in Manning and Wong\u2019s comedic, fantastical play, Mixie & The Half Breeds<\/em><\/a>, which follows the burgeoning friendship of two mixed race women who couldn\u2019t be more different…<\/p>\n

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

Growing up, Julie Tamiko Manning didn\u2019t know many people who looked like her. Manning is half-Japanese and half-white, a hybrid identity that made her stick out in her hometown in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,19,8],"tags":[28355,28356,28354,28358,28363,28364,28362,28357],"class_list":["post-56140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-adrienne-wong","tag-jenna-rodgers","tag-julie-tamiko-manning","tag-nessa-trenton","tag-now-toronto","tag-samantha-edwards","tag-vanessa-trenton","tag-zoe-doyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140","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=56140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56165,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56140\/revisions\/56165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}