{"id":58064,"date":"2019-05-14T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58064"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:42:13","slug":"my-book-looks-at-societal-representations-of-the-mixed-race-character-as-insane-tragic-and-torn-between-two-worlds-hodges-pers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58064","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy book looks at societal representations of the mixed-race character as \u2018insane,\u2019 \u2018tragic\u2019 and \u2018torn between two worlds,\u2019\u201d Hodges Persley said. \u201cBut if you dig deeper, that\u2019s not necessarily the case.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy book [<em>Not Tragic: Fredi Washington and the Improvisation of Radical Black Performance Traditions<\/em>] looks at societal representations of the mixed-race character as \u2018insane,\u2019 \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tragic<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018torn between two worlds,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theatredance.ku.edu\/nicole-hodges-persley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Nicole] Hodges Persley<\/a> said. \u201cBut if you dig deeper, that\u2019s not necessarily the case. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adrienne_Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Adrienne] Kennedy<\/a> says it\u2019s not necessarily the mixing of two races that produces psychosis but the predominant narrative of whiteness that people of color are forced to consume, but that they can never fulfill; they can never live up to it. She asks why blackness is portrayed as evil and not seen for its positive contributions to the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rick Hellman, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Funnyhouse of a Negro\u2019 gets under character\u2019s skin<\/a>,\u201d <em>KU Today<\/em>, May 1, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/today.ku.edu\/2019\/04\/30\/funnyhouse-negro-gets-under-characters-skin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/today.ku.edu\/2019\/04\/30\/funnyhouse-negro-gets-under-characters-skin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy book [Not Tragic: Fredi Washington and the Improvisation of Radical Black Performance Traditions] looks at societal representations of the mixed-race character as \u2018insane,\u2019 \u2018tragic\u2019 and \u2018torn between two worlds,\u2019\u201d [Nicole] Hodges Persley said. \u201cBut if you dig deeper, that\u2019s not necessarily the case. [Adrienne] Kennedy says it\u2019s not necessarily the mixing of two races [&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":[3486,9754,29771,29770,29772],"class_list":["post-58064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-adrienne-kennedy","tag-fredi-washington","tag-ku-today","tag-nicole-hodges-persley","tag-rick-hellman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58064","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=58064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58069,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58064\/revisions\/58069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}