{"id":202,"date":"2016-03-02T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:26:00","slug":"one-drop-of-love-qa-presidential-mixedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/one-drop-of-love-qa-presidential-mixedness\/","title":{"rendered":"One Drop of Love Q&#038;A: Presidential &#8220;Mixedness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hv3jO90uX1w?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>TANYA<\/strong>: I have a question in terms of the understanding of what being &#8220;biracial&#8221; is. And now that it is &#8220;presidential&#8221; (laughs) and people in this country see a person in\u00a0power who is of mixed race, what have you seen in terms of the different concept of what being biracial is now compared to when you were growing up, and people not really knowing what &#8220;mixed&#8221; meant?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FANSHEN<\/strong>: I have to say I&#8217;ve kind of come full circle. So you saw some of my identity search and conclusions growing up, and then for a while I was very involved in the mixed community, and proud of being mixed, and I started to see that there was this issue of privilege in that community too, that wasn&#8217;t being recognized, and it&#8217;s problematic.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things we would do a lot is complain about being asked &#8220;What are you?&#8221; well, the truth is, that&#8217;s a privilege. Because when someone asks you that, they want to be relieved by finding out that you&#8217;ve got some white in you, right? And they want to determine where they&#8217;re going to put you on a hierarchy. And so I&#8217;m more careful about what being mixed means.<\/p>\n<p>Some people that I work with, we have a non-profit called <a href=\"http:\/\/mixedrootsstories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Roots Stories<\/a>, and we want to encourage the personal narratives, but within a critical framework. So: understanding history, understanding privilege, understanding that this is all part of an evolutionary process and that if we&#8217;re not about doing some good, dismantling of some racism, then that&#8217;s not cool. And President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/03census.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">publicly stated that on the Census he chose African American<\/a>. That&#8217;s how the world treats him. That&#8217;s how he&#8217;s seen, and he&#8217;s proud of it. So &#8211; the biracial folks, and mixed folks, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;yeah, yeah, cool, but just don&#8217;t let that determine that you have decided now that you are exclusive of, or better than.<\/p>\n<p><em>One Drop of Love<\/em> is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE.<br \/>\nPlease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwsv2m34M47FSzt1tvMRChA\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to support our work and to get updates on our channel<br \/>\nSign up for the One Drop of Love newsletter and see our upcoming appearances: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1OQHy86\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1OQHy86<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fanshen\" target=\"_blank\">@fanshen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/onedropoflove\" target=\"_blank\">@onedropoflove<\/a><br \/>\nWe\u2019d LOVE your \u2018likes\u2019 on facebook too:<a href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1NelJz8\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1NelJz8<\/a><br \/>\nTumblr: <a href=\"http:\/\/fanshen.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/fanshen.tumblr.com<\/a><br \/>\nBring the show to your school\/college\/conference\/event: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1GqPG7b\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1GqPG7b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Direction by Carol Banker<br \/>\nQ&amp;A Host Patti Lewis<br \/>\nCamera by Katie Walker <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1FSOtea\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1FSOtea<\/a><br \/>\nMusic by Carol Doom<br \/>\nEditing and logo graphics by Alex Regalado <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Lh73wE\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Lh73wE<\/a> in association with SarafinaProductions <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1OkzzQD\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1OkzzQD<\/a><br \/>\nThe One Drop of Love logo was designed by Zerflin <a href=\"http:\/\/zerflin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/zerflin.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT: TANYA: I have a question in terms of the understanding of what being &#8220;biracial&#8221; is. 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