{"id":8904,"date":"2011-09-29T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2017-03-20T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T23:56:51","slug":"8904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8904","title":{"rendered":"Professor Michele Elam to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Michelle Elam to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mixed Chicks Chat<\/a><\/strong> (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the <\/em>Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival<\/em><\/a>)<\/em> Hosted by Fanshen Cox<\/a><\/strong>, Heidi W. Durrow<\/strong><\/a> and Jennifer Frappier<\/strong>
\nWebsite: TalkShoe\u2122<\/a> (Keywords: Mixed Chicks<\/em>)
\nEpisode: #227 – Professor Michele Elam
\nWhen: Wednesday, 2011-09-28, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT)<\/p>\n

Michele Elam<\/strong><\/a>, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
\nStanford University<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mixed Chicks Chat will be\u00a0talking with Michele Elam about her work on mixed-race identity and her new book, The Souls of Mixed Folks: Race, Aesthetics & Politics in the New Millenium<\/a><\/em> which examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works\u2014novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations\u2014as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights<\/a> politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical. Reorienting attention to the cultural invention of mixed race from the social sciences to the humanities, Elam considers the creative work of Lezley Saar<\/a>, Aaron McGruder<\/a>, Nate Creekmore<\/a>, Danzy Senna<\/a>, Colson Whitehead<\/a>, Emily Raboteau<\/a>, Carl Hancock Rux<\/a>, and Dave Chappelle<\/a>. All these writers and artists address mixed race as both an aesthetic challenge and a social concern, and together, they gesture toward a poetics of social justice for the \u201cmulatto<\/a> millennium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to the episode here<\/a>.\u00a0 Download the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed Chicks Chat will be talking with Michele Elam about her work on mixed-race identity and her new book, “The Souls of Mixed Folks: Race, Aesthetics & Politics in the New Millenium” which examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13743,13,8,20,25],"tags":[118,65,64,4809,1386,73],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-interviews","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-jennifer-frappier","tag-michele-elam","tag-mixed-chicks-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","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=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52689,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/52689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}