{"id":813,"date":"2021-09-23T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=813"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:03:34","slug":"race-and-intersectionality-mary-margaret-clouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/race-and-intersectionality-mary-margaret-clouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Race and Intersectionality: Mary Margaret Clouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the idea of a postracial society, we seem to think that if we have enough \u201cdiversity\u201d and positivity surrounding race, racial issues disappear. However, this keyword asserts that this is not the case. Race exists in our current society as an extension of power. Therefore, it is impossible to ignore race as it affects individuals and larger communities as a collective. Similarly, intersectionality examines the way race and other identities interact with each other within a largely patriarchal, heteronormative society. For example, in media we often see representations of identities that don\u2019t involve intersections. More specifically, superhero movies focus largely on white men, with more recent developments involving men of color and white women. However, there still haven\u2019t been any blockbuster films in recent years focused on women of color, or an LGBTQ+ individual. This is why it was so monumental for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moonlight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2016), a story focusing on the life of a gay Black man, to win best picture at the 2017 Academy Awards. Our ideas of race, gender, sexuality, etc. are so largely dictated by the media we consume, which is why it is essential to represent intersectional identities on screen. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the idea of a postracial society, we seem to think that if we have enough \u201cdiversity\u201d and positivity surrounding race, racial issues disappear. However, this keyword asserts that this is not the case. Race exists in our current society as an extension of power. Therefore, it is impossible to ignore race as it affects individuals and larger communities as&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/23\/race-and-intersectionality-mary-margaret-clouse\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87721,87686,785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intersectionality","category-keywords","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}