{"id":57778,"date":"2019-03-15T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57778"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:52:46","slug":"sorry-music-journalists-drake-is-black-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57778","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Canadaland<\/a>
\n2015-04-30<\/p>\n

Kyrell Grant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Drake<\/a>, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto’s<\/a> greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs<\/a> is black. And yet Drake’s own identity – his nationality, his mixed race background that includes Jewish heritage and upbringing, the neighbourhood he once lived in, the schools he went to – is often taken to mean that his black experience is somehow inauthentic.<\/em><\/p>\n

It feels ridiculous to have to say this: Drake<\/a> is black.<\/p>\n

Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto\u2019s<\/a> greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs<\/a> is black.<\/p>\n

He is a black man as much as any other black man. And yet Drake\u2019s own identity \u2013 his nationality, his mixed race background that includes Jewish heritage and upbringing, the neighbourhood he once lived in, the schools he went to \u2013 is often taken to mean that his black experience is somehow inauthentic. While certainly not the first artist to have this kind of analysis imposed on him, Drake\u2019s profile means that his art in particular has been prominently used to deny his black experience when it doesn\u2019t conform to someone else\u2019s narrow vision of race…<\/p>\n

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

Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto’s greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is black. And yet Drake’s own identity – his nationality, his mixed race background that includes Jewish heritage and upbringing, the neighbourhood he once lived in, the schools he went to – is often taken to mean that his black experience is somehow inauthentic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,8413,3601,8,820],"tags":[22587,20007,20008,10399,20009,1392,2372],"class_list":["post-57778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-communications","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-aubrey-drake-graham","tag-aubrey-graham","tag-canadaland","tag-drake","tag-kyrell-grant","tag-music","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57778","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=57778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57779,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57778\/revisions\/57779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}