{"id":16346,"date":"2013-03-23T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16346"},"modified":"2017-11-12T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:04:27","slug":"one-drop-my-fathers-hidden-life%e2%80%94a-story-of-race-and-family-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16346","title":{"rendered":"One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life\u2014A Story of Race and Family Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life\u2014A Story of Race and Family Secrets<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Little, Brown and Company<\/a>
\n2007
\n544 pages
\n5-1\/2″ x 8-1\/4″
\nISBN: 9780316008068<\/p>\n

Bliss Broyard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s<\/a> own parents,\u00a0New Orleans<\/a> Creoles<\/a>, had moved to Brooklyn<\/a> and began to \u201cpass<\/a>\u201d in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York<\/a> literary elite, he maintained the fa\u00e7ade. Now his daughter Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life. She searches out the family she never knew in New York and New Orleans, and considers the profound consequences of racial identity.<\/p>\n

Read an excerpt here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s own parents,\u00a0New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to \u201cpass\u201d in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the fa\u00e7ade. Now his daughter Bliss tries to make sense of his choices and the impact of this revelation on her own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,8,17,6462,20],"tags":[5427,1871],"class_list":["post-16346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-anatole-broyard","tag-bliss-broyard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346","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=16346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55107,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions\/55107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}