Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st CenturyPosted in Arts, Forthcoming Media, Identity Development/Psychology, United States on 2012-12-19 05:36Z by Steven |
Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st Century
2012
Lindsay C. Harris, Creator, Director, Artist & Lead Curator
Tida Tippapart, Producer and Co-Curator
Chelsea Rae Klein, Web Designer and Co-Curator
Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States.
Featuring filmed interviews with young artists and activists, photography, animation, and historical mappings, this video art project seeks to address a relevant contemporary issue by glimpsing at its chronicle. In an alleged post-race society, under governance of the first black (and mixed) president, the United States still criminalizes and demarcates black bodies, as made evident in the public realm by the recent death of Trayvon Martin and the extreme racial disproportionality in the criminal justice system (black men are over six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men). Even our current struggle over marriage equality is far too reminiscent of the fight to eradicate all miscegenation laws, which up until 1967, banned interracial marriage…
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