{"id":63689,"date":"2022-04-20T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63689"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:56:11","slug":"i-see-the-ways-in-which-the-media-has-sold-me-and-other-light-skinned-actors-in-general-as-monolithic-representations-of-a-blackness-it-is-so-damaging-and-gross-honestly-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63689","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI see the ways in which the media has sold me, and other light-skinned actors in general, as monolithic representations of a Blackness. It is so damaging and gross \u2013 honestly, it\u2019s nasty.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI see the ways in which the media has sold me, and other light-skinned actors in general, as monolithic representations of a Blackness. It is so damaging and gross \u2013 honestly, it\u2019s nasty.\u201d The anger in her voice is palpable. \u201cIt\u2019s just like sneaky racism.\u201d She says that she is now very wary when people try to position her as representative of all Black people\u2019s experiences. \u201cI have only one sliver of experience, and that sliver is also drenched in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">light-skin privilege<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Micha Frazer-Carroll, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trailblazer with Amandla Stenberg<\/a>,\u201d <em>Net-a-Porter<\/em>, February 8, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/en-gb\/porter\/article-9e95acbdd72f91f5\/cover-stories\/cover-stories\/amandla-stenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.net-a-porter.com\/en-gb\/porter\/article-9e95acbdd72f91f5\/cover-stories\/cover-stories\/amandla-stenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI see the ways in which the media has sold me, and other light-skinned actors in general, as monolithic representations of a Blackness. It is so damaging and gross \u2013 honestly, it\u2019s nasty.\u201d The anger in her voice is palpable. \u201cIt\u2019s just like sneaky racism.\u201d She says that she is now very wary when people [&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":[20697,240,27472,33405],"class_list":["post-63689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-amandla-stenberg","tag-colorism","tag-micha-frazer-carroll","tag-net-a-porter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63689","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=63689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63690,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63689\/revisions\/63690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}