{"id":58049,"date":"2019-05-13T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58049"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:45:39","slug":"in-france-we-have-a-very-different-relationship-in-terms-of-defining-blackness-im-not-called-black-im-called-a-frenchwoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58049","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIn France, we have a very different relationship in terms of defining blackness. I\u2019m not called black \u2014 I\u2019m called a Frenchwoman.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Mati] Diop\u2019s<\/a> father (jazz musician Wasis Diop<\/a>) is from Senegal<\/a> and her mother is French. Diop was born and raised in Paris<\/a>, although she visited Senegal often as a child. \u201c<\/span>In France<\/a>, we have a very different relationship in terms of defining blackness. I\u2019<\/span>m not called black \u2014 I\u2019m called a Frenchwoman,\u201d<\/span> she says. \u201cBut I have noticed that in America<\/a>, as soon as you have a little \u2014 even 10 or 20 percent of blackness \u2014 you become black. Being black is not something I think about every day when I wake up. I don\u2019t think of myself as white or as black. I just think about me as me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c<\/span>Meet the First Black Female Director in the Cannes Competition,\u201d<\/span> The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, May 9, 2019. https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/mati-diop-being-first-black-female-director-cannes-lineup-1208189<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Mati] Diop\u2019s father (jazz musician Wasis Diop) is from Senegal and her mother is French. Diop was born and raised in Paris, although she visited Senegal often as a child. \u201cIn France, we have a very different relationship in terms of defining blackness. I\u2019m not called black \u2014 I\u2019m called a Frenchwoman,\u201d she says. \u201cBut […]<\/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":[96,15761,29766,15760,29767],"class_list":["post-58049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-france","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-mati-diop","tag-the-hollywood-reporter","tag-wasis-diop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58049","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=58049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58050,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58049\/revisions\/58050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}