{"id":11645,"date":"2017-10-20T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/20\/channel-4s-brownface-documentary-is-no-way-to-portray-muslims-radhika-sanghani\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:59:08","slug":"channel-4s-brownface-documentary-is-no-way-to-portray-muslims-radhika-sanghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11645","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4\u2019s \u2018brownface\u2019 documentary  is no way to portray Muslims | Radhika Sanghani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once spent 24 hours in a niqab to explore racist attitudes. But My Week As a Muslim tips a worthy idea into the realm of stereotype and clicheKatie Freeman is being given a prosthetic nose. It is larger, thicker and wider than her existing nose. Next come a selection of teeth covers \u2013 all of which appear slightly yellower and more crooked than her existing teeth \u2013 and brown contact lenses. Then the piece de resistance: her white skin is covered up with a dark layer of makeup.This is not a tasteless Halloween costume. It is a scene from Monday\u2019s Channel 4 show My Week As a Muslim, where a white woman is \u201ctransformed to look like she\u2019s of Pakistani origin\u201d. The idea is for Freeman, a 44-year-old British healthcare assistant who genuinely wonders whether every woman in a burqa might be covering up a suicide belt, to spend a week undercover in Manchester\u2019s Muslim community. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/20\/channel-4-brownface-tv-documentary-my-week-as-a-muslim-niqab-racism\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 4\u2019s \u2018brownface\u2019 documentary  is no way to portray Muslims | Radhika Sanghani<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once spent 24 hours in a niqab to explore racist attitudes. But My Week As a Muslim tips a worthy idea into the realm of stereotype and clicheKatie Freeman is being given a prosthetic nose. It is larger, thicker and wider than her existing nose. Next come a selection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}