{"id":6146,"date":"2010-03-19T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2010-09-26T01:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T01:56:59","slug":"race-card-corinne-bailey-rae-and-zadie-smith-navigate-race-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6146","title":{"rendered":"Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/race-card-corinne-bailey-rae-and-zadie-smith-navigate-race-and-art-1\" target=\"_blank\">Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bitch Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n2010-01-21<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadra Kareem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Works by two mixed-race Brits\u2014musician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corinnebaileyrae.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corinne Bailey Rae<\/a> and writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zadie_Smith\" target=\"_blank\">Zadie Smith<\/a>\u2014have recently been profiled in the<em> New York Times<\/em>. Both women navigate their collective white and Caribbean ancestry by embracing hybridity instead of relegating themselves to one group. Their doing so challenges entrenched American notions of race that say that multiracial people must choose one ethnicity or another, not all.<\/p>\n<p>The English-Jamaican Smith, who rose to fame upon the publication of her 2000 bestselling book <em>White Teeth<\/em>, regards <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zora_Neale_Hurston\" target=\"_blank\">Zora Neale Hurston<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> as her sister and brother in arms. In her new book of essays, <em>Changing My Mind<\/em>, Smith praises Hurston for making \u201c\u2018black woman-ness\u2019 appear a real, tangible quality, an essence I can almost believe I share, however improbably, with millions of complex individuals.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;For singer Corinne Bailey Rae, whose mother is white and father is from the West Indian island of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Kitts\" target=\"_blank\">St. Kitts<\/a>, being mixed-race had a direct impact on her music. Now, 30, Bailey Rae gravitated towards grunge in her teens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/race-card-corinne-bailey-rae-and-zadie-smith-navigate-race-and-art-1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race Card: Corinne Bailey Rae and Zadie Smith Navigate Race and Art Bitch Magazine 2010-01-21 Nadra Kareem Works by two mixed-race Brits\u2014musician Corinne Bailey Rae and writer Zadie Smith\u2014have recently been profiled in the New York Times. Both women navigate their collective white and Caribbean ancestry by embracing hybridity instead of relegating themselves to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,1196,6,394,25],"tags":[2537,2538,1392,2539,1344],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-bitch-magazine","tag-corinne-bailey-rae","tag-music","tag-nadra-kareem","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","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=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}