{"id":17139,"date":"2011-10-19T23:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2011-10-19T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:50:06","slug":"%e2%80%9cmy-long-trip-home-a-family-memoir%e2%80%9d-by-mark-whitaker-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17139","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,\u201d by Mark Whitaker [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/my-long-trip-home-a-family-memoir-by-mark-whitaker\/2011\/09\/28\/gIQA7mUQkL_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMy Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,\u201d by Mark Whitaker<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2011-10-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Yardley<\/strong>, Critic<\/p>\n<p>Now in his mid-50s, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Whitaker\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Whitaker<\/a> has had an impressive journalistic career. Fresh out of Harvard in the late 1970s, he went to work at <em>Newsweek<\/em> and rose steadily through various assignments, eventually becoming its editor. In 2006 he moved to NBC, at first as \u201cthe number two executive in the news division,\u201d then as chief of its Washington bureau. Now he is executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide, an immensely influential position given that CNN reaches into almost every nook and cranny of the world.<\/p>\n<p>All of which makes for quite a resume, but it also makes for the least interesting part of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15672\" target=\"_blank\">My Long Trip Home<\/a>,\u201d Whitaker\u2019s memoir. It\u2019s worth reading because it\u2019s a thoughtful account of growing up bi-racial at a point in this country\u2019s history when racial identities are in flux and when people of mixed race are ever more common&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cMy Long Trip Home\u201d is not a confessional memoir of the sort so popular these days, especially among younger memoirists who have nothing to confess except the cruelties allegedly inflicted upon them by others or simply by life itself. For the most part Whitaker\u2019s tone is objective, almost reportorial, which permits the reader to see his story clearly rather than through the mists of hyperventilated emotion. It\u2019s a good book.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/my-long-trip-home-a-family-memoir-by-mark-whitaker\/2011\/09\/28\/gIQA7mUQkL_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,\u201d by Mark Whitaker The Washington Post 2011-10-14 Jonathan Yardley, Critic Now in his mid-50s, Mark Whitaker has had an impressive journalistic career. Fresh out of Harvard in the late 1970s, he went to work at Newsweek and rose steadily through various assignments, eventually becoming its editor. In 2006 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[7951,7228,2875],"class_list":["post-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jonathan-yardley","tag-mark-whitaker","tag-the-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","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=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}