{"id":30970,"date":"2014-11-26T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30970"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:16:04","slug":"nov-28-event-will-be-a-discussion-on-blackfacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/11\/nov-28-event-will-be-a-discussion-on-blackfacing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 28 event will be a discussion on &#8216;blackfacing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">The Brock community is invited to attend an event and discussion this Friday Nov 28 about why &#8220;blackfacing&#8221; is offensive. It is part of a discussion that has been taking place on campus following an incident last month at a Halloween costume party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Friday&#8217;s event starts at 5 pm and takes place in AS 201.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Speakers will include Tamari Kitossa, an associate professor from the Sociology department, as well as a Skype conversation with Isma\u00ebl Traor\u00e9. There will also be an open discussion with students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">The event is supported by a number of Brock units and organizations including the Roots: African Caribbean Society, Student Justice Centre, Brock Office of Human Rights and Equity Services, Brock OPIRG, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Labour Studies, the Social Justice Research Institute and CUPE 4207.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is invited to attend an event and discussion this Friday Nov 28 about why &#8220;blackfacing&#8221; is offensive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30972,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30970\/revisions\/30972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}