{"id":56727,"date":"2018-08-10T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56727"},"modified":"2018-08-10T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:48:08","slug":"the-photographs-remind-us-repeatedly-that-the-racial-delineations-imposed-by-society-are-often-arbitrary-and-flimsy-always-fraught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56727","title":{"rendered":"The photographs remind us, repeatedly, that the racial delineations imposed by society are often arbitrary and flimsy, always fraught."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The express ornaments of black culture that appear in some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genevievegaignard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Genevieve] Gaignard\u2019s<\/a> images\u2014braids and Afros, head wraps and African prints\u2014like all surfaces, can be borrowed. The photographs remind us, repeatedly, that the racial delineations imposed by society are often arbitrary and flimsy, always fraught.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Katie Ryder, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56725\">An Artist\u2019s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, July 17, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/an-artists-costumed-alter-egos-cross-racial-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/photo-booth\/an-artists-costumed-alter-egos-cross-racial-lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The express ornaments of black culture that appear in some of [Genevieve] Gaignard\u2019s images\u2014braids and Afros, head wraps and African prints\u2014like all surfaces, can be borrowed. The photographs remind us, repeatedly, that the racial delineations imposed by society are often arbitrary and flimsy, always fraught. Katie Ryder, \u201cAn Artist\u2019s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22811,28889,3886],"class_list":["post-56727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-genevieve-gaignard","tag-katie-ryder","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56727","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=56727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56728,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56727\/revisions\/56728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}