Ariel Yisrael
Sixty Inches From Center
Sixty Inches From Center is a collective of writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who publish and produce collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in the occupied lands known as Chicago and the Midwest.
Mourning Racial Categories: Why White?
I’m White Like You, Right Mom?
Jan, 2022
In June of 2021, Why White? premiered at the 19th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Why White? is the second of MCRC’s latest short film duology, the other being I’m White Like You Right Mom?. Why White? explores themes of religion and colonialism through the eyes of a veteran who is asked to check his racial category at a doctor’s appointment.
Jan, 2022
. Part one of MCRC’s latest short film duology, I’m White Like You, Right Mom?, explores the felt separation and uncomfortable realizations that come about when a child is classified as a different race than one of their parents. The film’s central conflict is between a mother and a daughter.
The Categories of Black & White
Nov, 2021
The Categories Black and White, available for viewing at KET.org, is a film that hopes to offer a language through which the creation of unequal racial groups in the United States may be both mourned and understood. The film was created as part of the Mourning the Creation of Racial Categories project (MCRC), which uses the creative and performing arts to reveal the United States’ history of division on the basis of race.