PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?Posted in Articles, Live Events, Media Archive, My Articles/Point of View/Activities, Social Science, United States on 2014-01-24 03:49Z by Steven |
PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?
Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations
Brooklyn Historical Society
Fall 2013
Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate
All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013
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| Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. | A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical Society’s newly renovated Great Hall asks a question. |
The 3rd Annual What Are You? event packed the house in Brooklyn Historical Society’s newly renovated Great Hall!
This year’s discussion about mixed heritage had a thematic focus on art, media, and performance as avenues for engaging mixed-heritage identity and politics.
Artist Chris Johnson explained the genesis of Question Bridge: Black Males: what would it be like to listen in like a fly on the wall to conversations Black men are having with their peers? What conversations across age, class, and experience are not happening that we wish would happen? What questions do Black men have for other Black men?
Natasha Logan, a producer for Question Bridge: Black Males shared some incredible photographs from an exhibition she curated titled White Boys, highlighting the ways in which white male identity is neutralized or made invisible…
…Many thanks to all of you who came and participated in conversations and shared your stories and questions with Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations! And special thanks to Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org, and Kenda Danowski from SWIRL and founder of NAMSO (National Association for Mixed Student Organizations) for MC’ing!
Read the entire article and view the photographs here.
