{"id":14946,"date":"2011-07-17T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14946"},"modified":"2017-07-16T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T02:16:00","slug":"the-jackson-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14946","title":{"rendered":"The Jackson Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/1938\/09\/17\/1938_09_17_029_TNY_CARDS_000173099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jackson Whites<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a><br \/>\n1938-09-17<br \/>\npage 29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Weller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Weller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>REPORTER AT LARGE about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jackson Whites<\/a>; history and origin of a primitive race living in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramapo_Mountains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramapo Mountains<\/a>. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, &amp; the American Indians. Next to being an Indian, the greatest point of distinction for the Jackson White is to be an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">albino<\/a>. The Ramapos have several entire families of albinos. The queen of the albinos was Nellie Mann, who in the late 1890&#8217;s travelled with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_Bailey_Circus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnum &amp; Bailey<\/a> sideshow, billed as a wild girl captured in the Australian bush. Mentions the van Dunks an albino family; the de Frees family which has branches all over the Ramapos, and Uncle Willie de Frees, a patriarch of the Jackson Whites and the only surving doctor<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.newyorker.com\/?i=1938-09-17#folio=029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jackson Whites; history and origin of a primitive race living in the Ramapo Mountains. They are a mixture of three races, the white, the Negro, &#038; the American Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,5113,20],"tags":[6899,6895,2711],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-george-weller","tag-jackson-whites","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","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=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54533,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions\/54533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}