{"id":25315,"date":"2012-09-11T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25315"},"modified":"2012-09-14T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T21:43:09","slug":"marcia-dawkings-booksigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25315","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Dawkins Booksigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esowonbookstore.com\/event\/marcia-dawkins-booksigning-click-here-more-information\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Dawkins Booksigning<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esowonbookstore.com\" target=\"_blank\">Eso Won Books<\/a><br \/>\n4327 Degnan Blvd (Leimert Park Business Center)<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90008<br \/>\nPhone: 323-290-1048<br \/>\n2012-09-12, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22018\" target=\"_blank\">Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearlyinvisiblebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcia Alesan Dawkins<\/a>. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2012, 285 pages. Hardback ISBN: 9781602583122.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Passing<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(def): usually understood as an abbreviation for &#8220;racial passing.&#8221; Describes the fact of being accepted, or categorized successfully as, a member of people classifed as white.<\/p>\n<p><em>Clearly Invisible<\/em> journeys to sometimes uncomfortable but unfailingly learned places as Dawkins retells the contemporary expressions and past experiences of individuals who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a> as white people. Along the way these former non-white people&#8217;s stories sound familiar but take subtle turns to reveal tensions lurking beneath the surface, non-white people who ultimately expose as much about white supremacy\/racism as they conceal about themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bring your questions, put on your thinking cap and enjoy this controversial topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esowonbookstore.com\/event\/marcia-dawkins-booksigning-click-here-more-information\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcia Dawkins Booksigning Eso Won Books 4327 Degnan Blvd (Leimert Park Business Center) Los Angeles, California 90008 Phone: 323-290-1048 2012-09-12, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity by Marcia Alesan Dawkins. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2012, 285 pages. Hardback ISBN: 9781602583122. Passing\u00a0(def): usually understood as an abbreviation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,6462,20],"tags":[11820,3083,2408,2406],"class_list":["post-25315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-eso-won-books","tag-marcia-a-dawkins","tag-marcia-alesan-dawkins","tag-marcia-dawkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315","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=25315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}