{"id":58059,"date":"2019-05-14T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58059"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:12:28","slug":"funnyhouse-of-a-negro-gets-under-characters-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58059","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Funnyhouse of a Negro\u2019 gets under character\u2019s skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Funnyhouse of a Negro\u2019 gets under character\u2019s skin<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

KU Today<\/a>
\nThe University of Kansas
\nLawrence, Kansas 66045
\n2019-05-01<\/p>\n

Rick Hellman<\/strong><\/a>, KU News Service
\nTelephone: 785-864-8852<\/p>\n

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LAWRENCE<\/a> \u2013 More than one white politician has landed in hot water this year after old photographs of them dressed in blackface<\/a> surfaced. Clearly, racial stereotypes are still a touchy subject. So is it OK for minorities to dress in whiteface? What if it\u2019s meant to represent an inner conflict among people of mixed-race identity?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis question implies that there is such a thing as reverse racism, and I don\u2019t think we can even ask that without discussing the systemic inequality and racial hierarchies that result in internalized racism experienced by historically underrepresented groups,\u201d said Nicole Hodges Persley<\/a>, University of Kansas associate professor of theatre.<\/p>\n

Melting Pot Theatre<\/a> in Kansas City, Missouri<\/a>, goes there this month when Hodges Persley directs an avant-garde<\/a> play from 1964 titled \u201cFunnyhouse of a Negro<\/a>\u201d by Adrienne Kennedy<\/a>. The play, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, for a two-week run, is part of Hodges Persley\u2019s exploration of the ways 20th-century black artists undermined racial and mixed-race stereotypes in their creative work.<\/p>\n

For the past couple of years, Hodges Persley has been working on the first major biography of actress Fredi Washington<\/a> (1903-1994), a woman of mixed racial background who fought against the racial stereotyping of her day while also working for black empowerment…<\/p>\n

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

LAWRENCE \u2013 More than one white politician has landed in hot water this year after old photographs of them dressed in blackface surfaced. Clearly, racial stereotypes are still a touchy subject. So is it OK for minorities to dress in whiteface? What if it\u2019s meant to represent an inner conflict among people of mixed-race identity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[3486,9754,29771,29770,29772,3495],"class_list":["post-58059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adrienne-kennedy","tag-fredi-washington","tag-ku-today","tag-nicole-hodges-persley","tag-rick-hellman","tag-university-of-kansas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059","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=58059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58060,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059\/revisions\/58060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}