{"id":5368,"date":"2004-11-30T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:44","slug":"a-deeper-look-at-an-artist-who-refused-to-be-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/30\/a-deeper-look-at-an-artist-who-refused-to-be-white\/","title":{"rendered":"A deeper look at an artist who refused to be white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/chi-0411250278nov25,1,1911743.story\">A deeper look at an artist who refused to be white<\/a><br \/>\nby Michael Kilian<br \/>\nChicago Tribune<br \/>\nNovember 25, 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Romare Beardon (1911&#8211;1988) was not only one of the most talented American artists of the 20th Century but also one of the most complicated.<\/p>\n<p>An extremely light-skinned African-American, he easily could have lived his life as white but refused to do so, devoting most of his art to African-American life and the struggles of blacks to achieve respect and equality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kilian is trying to make something heroic out of accepting the &#8220;one drop&#8221; myth. Beardon was only following orders, obeying the status quo, etc. What&#8217;s heroic about that? Courage lies in defying the status quo and rejecting the ODR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deeper look at an artist who refused to be white by Michael Kilian Chicago Tribune November 25, 2004 Romare Beardon (1911&#8211;1988) was not only one of the most talented American artists of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}