{"id":24059,"date":"2012-03-21T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/first-of-all-as-a-student-of-culture-and-popular\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:31:56","slug":"first-of-all-as-a-student-of-culture-and-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/first-of-all-as-a-student-of-culture-and-popular\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>First of all, as a student of culture and popular culture and the impact that it has on us all, I know this to be true: Seeing yourself represented in the popular culture is really critical in terms of forming your own self image. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m old enough to have been around before seeing black people represented in the popular culture in diverse ways. When I was a kid, it was a big deal to see a black person on television. So that\u2019s why it was important in a science fiction thing \u2014 in \u201cStar Trek\u201d \u2014 it was huge. I read a lot of science fiction books as a kid. As a kid of science fiction, \u201cStar Trek\u201d was important to me and seeing a person of color in a command position was hugely important to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>actor Levar Burton, <em>Star Trek<\/em> and <em>Reading Rainbow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/2012\/02\/27\/star-trek-tng-levar-burton-engineers-new-career-chapters\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/racebending.tumblr.com\/\">racebending<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I had Juan Valdez, the avatar for Colombian Federation of Coffee Growers, as my affirming latino representation in public media forms. Otherwise, I had Freddy Prinze in &ldquo;Chico and the Man&rdquo;, and all of the bad guys on &ldquo;Miami Vice&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, as a student of culture and popular culture and the impact that it has on us all, I know this to be true: Seeing yourself represented in the popular culture is really critical in terms of forming your own self image. I\u2019m old enough to have been around before seeing black people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6g3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}