{"id":58646,"date":"2019-08-01T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58646"},"modified":"2019-08-01T20:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:33:21","slug":"mixed-race-and-the-media-notes-from-a-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58646","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race and the Media: Notes from a Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/mixed-race-and-the-media-notes-from-a-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mixed Race and the Media: Notes from a Workshop<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afropean. Adventures in Black Europe<\/a><br \/>\n2019-05-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nina Camara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/mixed-race-and-the-media-notes-from-a-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6119-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6119-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6119-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6119-296x197.jpg 296w, http:\/\/afropean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_6119.jpg 720w\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiracial people are very visible in popular culture, however, what picture(s) does it paint?<\/p>\n<p>As someone who grew up in a culture where people of colour are a small minority, I always felt ambiguous about the attention directed at us as a result of our difference. I longed to find out about the experiences of other mixed-race individuals. Living in London finally enabled me to explore this collective experience and create a space to have these discussions. In order to do so, I facilitated an informal workshop which brought together people of mixed-race origins to reflect upon our portrayals in various media outlets and their wider impact.<\/p>\n<p>The group consisted of 8 individuals with heritages spanning many cultures, including the Middle East, Britain, Eastern Europe, India, Jamaica, the US (including Native American heritage) and Nigeria. Through a series of activities, we explored our self-perceptions, examples of how the mixed-race experience is represented across various media outlets and popular beliefs that are pervasive in wider society about mixed-race people. Upon reflection, it was a good learning curve and a fun way to ponder the complexity of mixed-race experience on a relaxed Sunday afternoon. Here is a quick summary of our conversation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/afropean.com\/mixed-race-and-the-media-notes-from-a-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial people are very visible in popular culture, however, what picture(s) does it paint?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8],"tags":[17846,30093,30092],"class_list":["post-58646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-afropean","tag-afropean-adventures-in-black-europe","tag-nina-camara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58646","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=58646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58649,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58646\/revisions\/58649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}