{"id":14970,"date":"2011-07-18T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2011-07-18T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:33:41","slug":"in-the-blink-of-an-eye-a-change-in-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14970","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In The Blink Of An Eye,&#8217; A Change In Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/07\/06\/137656165\/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-writers-racial-identity-changed\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;In The Blink Of An Eye,&#8217; A Change In Racial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/all-things-considered\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Considered<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2011-07-07<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100974\/michele-norris\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Norris<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/07\/06\/137656165\/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-writers-racial-identity-changed\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/chrome\/news\/nprlogo_138x46.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incognitotheplay.com\/documents\/biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Sidney Fosberg<\/a> grew up thinking he was white. His mother is white. His stepfather is white. And while he never met his biological father, the assumption was that he was white too. But well into his adulthood, Fosberg found out that his father was a black man. Michele Norris speaks to him about his story that he&#8217;s told in his one-man play and his book, both called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.incognitotheplay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Incognito<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the transcript of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/07\/06\/137656165\/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-writers-racial-identity-changed\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2011\/07\/20110706_atc_09.mp3?dl=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In The Blink Of An Eye,&#8217; A Change In Racial Identity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2011-07-07 Michele Norris, Host Michael Sidney Fosberg grew up thinking he was white. His mother is white. His stepfather is white. And while he never met his biological father, the assumption was that he was white too. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,1245,125,8,20],"tags":[2342,6908,6907,6906,2344,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-biography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-all-things-considered","tag-michael-fosberg","tag-michael-s-fosberg","tag-michael-sidney-fosberg","tag-michele-norris","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","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=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}