{"id":16990,"date":"2011-10-12T21:04:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16990"},"modified":"2011-10-12T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:27:20","slug":"walter-white-and-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16990","title":{"rendered":"Walter White and Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1742058X05050034\" target=\"_blank\">Walter White and Passing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=DBR\" target=\"_blank\">Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?iid=305821\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Issue 1<\/a> (2005)<br \/>\npages 17-27<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1742058X05050034\" target=\"_blank\">10.1017\/S1742058X05050034<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/afriafam\/fac_staff\/janken\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth R. Janken<\/a><\/strong>, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Francis_White\" target=\"_blank\">Walter White<\/a>, the blond, blue-eyed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlanta\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantan<\/a>, was a voluntary Negro, that is, an African American who appears to be White but chooses to live in the Black world and identify with its experiences. He joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\" target=\"_blank\">NAACP<\/a> national leadership in 1918 as assistant secretary and became secretary in 1931, serving at this post until his death in 1955. His tenure was marked by an effective public antilynching campaign and organizational stability and growth during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Depression\" target=\"_blank\">Depression<\/a> years <em>and<\/em> by controversy over his leadership style. For him, posing as a Caucasian\u2014and then telling all who would listen about his escapades\u2014had three interrelated purposes. First, he developed inside information about mob psychology and mob violence, publicity of which was critical to the NAACP&#8217;s campaign against <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynching\" target=\"_blank\">lynching<\/a>. Second, White hoped to show Whites in particular the fallacy of racial stereotyping and racial categorization. Third, by emphasizing the dangers he courted\u2014and even embellishing on them\u2014he enhanced his racial bona fides at key times when his Black critics called into question his leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter White and Passing Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 2, Issue 1 (2005) pages 17-27 DOI: 10.1017\/S1742058X05050034 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Walter White, the blond, blue-eyed Atlantan, was a voluntary Negro, that is, an African American who appears to be White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[7794,1187,7793,7792,6786,1929],"class_list":["post-16990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-du-bois-review","tag-du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race","tag-kenneth-janken","tag-kenneth-r-janken","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-walter-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990","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=16990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}