{"id":58869,"date":"2019-09-16T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58869"},"modified":"2019-09-17T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:36:51","slug":"mixed-ish-team-on-why-all-stories-about-others-are-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58869","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mixed-ish\u2019 Team on Why \u2018All Stories About \u201cOthers\u201d Are Necessary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Mixed-ish\u2019 Team on Why \u2018All Stories About \u201cOthers\u201d Are Necessary\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Variety<\/a>
\n2019-09-14<\/p>\n

BreAnna Bell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Gary<\/a>
\nCREDIT: David Buchan\/Variety\/Shutterstock<\/small><\/p>\n

The producers and cast of \u201cMixed-ish<\/a>\u201d are not out to tell a singular black and white story \u2014 but one that showcases and celebrates all shades in between.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for me across the board in all of my work to talk about \u2018otherness\u2019 and identity and real, grounded characters,\u201d showrunner Karin Gist<\/a> told Variety<\/em> at the PaleyFest Fall Previews<\/a> panel for the new ABC comedy on Saturday. \u201cThis is just another example of that \u2014 an example of putting something up for everybody to talk about think about have conversations about through these characters that you fall in love with. It\u2019s a story about \u2018others\u2019 that I think is necessary and I think all stories about \u2018others\u2019 are necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the newest addition to Kenya Barris<\/a>\u2019 \u201cish\u201d universe, Gist and fellow executive producer Peter Saji<\/a> shine a light on \u201cBlack-ish<\/a>\u201d Johnson family matriarch Rainbow\u2019s (played by Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a> in \u201cBlack-ish\u201d and Arica Himmel<\/a> in \u201cMixed-ish\u201d) origin story. The pilot begins when the hippie commune<\/a> in which she was raised gets raided and her family has to move to the suburbs. The young Rainbow and her siblings (Mykal-Michelle Harris<\/a>, Ethan William Childress<\/a>) are left to navigate race and capitalism in the \u201creal world.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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