{"id":56468,"date":"2018-05-25T02:44:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T02:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56468"},"modified":"2018-12-03T03:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T03:54:33","slug":"the-life-giving-art-of-adrian-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56468","title":{"rendered":"The Life-Giving Art of Adrian Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Life-Giving Art of Adrian Piper<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Shondaland<\/a>
\n2018-04-20<\/p>\n

Rebecca Carroll<\/strong><\/a>, Editor of Special Projects
\nWNYC New York Public Radio, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGETTY IMAGES\/PHOTO BY SUZANNE KREITER\/THE BOSTON GLOBE<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I went to college at a small, private liberal arts school in rural Massachusetts<\/a> on a full financial scholarship. There I navigated two sets of friends: my black friends, and my white friends. The school was, of course, predominantly white, but the students of color created a strong and robust community. For the first couple of years, though, still legit messed up by being adopted by a white family and raised in an all-white town, I placed an inordinate amount of value on proximity to white folks. So I went ahead and kept up with them Saab<\/a>-driving, co-op shift-having, jazz-loving white friends, who largely performed their wokeness<\/a> and ignored or exotified my blackness. Enter: the conceptual artist Adrian Piper<\/a>, who pretty much gave me my life…<\/p>\n

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