{"id":13928,"date":"2011-05-25T21:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13928"},"modified":"2013-08-16T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:07:07","slug":"the-invisible-line-three-american-families-and-the-secret-journey-from-black-to-white-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13928","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Discussion]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/21063812\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Discussion]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lillian Goldman Law Library<br \/>\nYale University<br \/>\n2011-03-07<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/law.vanderbilt.edu\/bio\/daniel-sharfstein\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel J. Sharfstein<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Vanderbilt University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moderator: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.yale.edu\/faculty\/CPriest.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Priest<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lillian Goldman Law Library together with the Yale Law School Legal History Forum and the Yale Black Law Students Association invite you to a discussion featuring an important new book by Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein, with critical commentary by Professor Claire Priest.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11122\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Line<\/a><\/em> unravels the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are. For example, one of the families that started out black produced a Yale-educated Confederate general! <strong>This book has been called a \u201cmust read\u201d by major scholars spanning the fields of legal history and African American Studies.<\/strong> It is written with the sensitivity of a novelist from the perspective of a legal scholar and provides a fascinating account of how laws and court decisions help shape racial attitudes.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=21063812&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=21063812&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Running Time: 01:17:37<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White [Discussion] Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale University 2011-03-07 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Moderator: Claire Priest, Professor of Law Yale University The Lillian Goldman Law Library together with the Yale Law School Legal History Forum and the Yale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,125,1467,13,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[6405,2766,2767],"class_list":["post-13928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-law","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-claire-priest","tag-daniel-j-sharfstein","tag-daniel-sharfstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}