{"id":57007,"date":"2018-11-12T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57007"},"modified":"2018-11-12T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:23:53","slug":"deconstructing-the-truism-of-race-as-a-social-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57007","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing the Truism of Race as a Social Construct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/programs-events\/2018\/11\/deconstructing-the-truism-of-race-as-a-social-construct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Deconstructing the Truism of Race as a Social Construct<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hammer Museum<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\n10899 Wilshire Boulevard<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90024<br \/>\n2018-11-03<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy.uoregon.edu\/profile\/nzack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Naomi Zack<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>University of Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhodes.edu\/bio\/rebecca-tuvel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rebecca Tuvel<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/philosophy\/people\/costello\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Diarmuid Costello<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>University of Warwick<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ls_embed_1542060290\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/5045103\/events\/8439301\/videos\/183038898\/player?width=560&amp;height=315&amp;enableInfo=true&amp;defaultDrawer=&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;mute=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Philosophers Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon, Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College, and Diarmuid Costello of the University of Warwick discuss the ways in which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adrian_Piper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Piper\u2019s<\/a> art interrogates racial identity, focusing on specific works as well as Piper\u2019s own writings about race, &#8220;Passing for White, Passing for Black&#8221; and <em>Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir<\/em>.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/programs-events\/2018\/11\/deconstructing-the-truism-of-race-as-a-social-construct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/fileadmin\/_processed_\/csm_1981_Self-Portrait-Exaggerating-My-Negroid-Features1_918c2f8628.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adrian_Piper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Piper<\/a>, <em>Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features<\/em>, 1981<br \/>\nPencil on paper. 10 \u00d7 8 in. (25.4 \u00d7 20.3 cm). The Eileen Harris Norton Collection \u00a9 Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>View the discussion (03:04:11) <a href=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/programs-events\/2018\/11\/deconstructing-the-truism-of-race-as-a-social-construct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophers Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon, Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College, and Diarmuid Costello of the University of Warwick discuss the ways in which Adrian Piper\u2019s art interrogates racial identity, focusing on specific works as well as Piper\u2019s own writings about race, &#8220;Passing for White, Passing for Black&#8221; and Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,1196,8,6462,6941,842],"tags":[2938,29061,29062,359,26919],"class_list":["post-57007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-philosophy","category-videos","tag-adrian-piper","tag-diarmuid-costello","tag-hammer-museum","tag-naomi-zack","tag-rebecca-tuvel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007","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=57007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57009,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57007\/revisions\/57009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}