{"id":25435,"date":"2012-09-17T01:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25435"},"modified":"2012-09-17T01:48:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:48:46","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-lived-a-strange-kind-of-life%e2%80%94half-black-half-white-half-isolated-half-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25435","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve lived a strange kind of life\u2014half black, half white, half isolated, half in the spotlight."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe tough girls tough it out,\u201d she [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Wiggins Brown<\/a>]\u00a0said with a wry grin. \u201cI\u2019ve lived a strange kind of life\u2014half black, half white, half isolated, half in the spotlight. Many things that I wanted as a young person for my career were denied to me because of my color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, many black folks have said, \u2018Well, she\u2019s not really black.\u2019 Except for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Todd_Duncan\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Duncan<\/a>, our original Porgy, who died last month at the age of 95 and with whom I was very close, the \u2018Porgy\u2019 cast didn\u2019t associate with me very much, though it wasn\u2019t because I didn\u2019t want to. Only when I went on a train or into a theater did I think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>, and even then I didn\u2019t consider it passing. I figured if I simply asked for a ticket it was their problem. Onstage, though, if they couldn\u2019t take me as I was\u2014the hell with them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barry Singer, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25428\" target=\"_blank\">Theater; On Hearing Her Sing, Gershwin Made \u2018Porgy\u2019 \u2018Porgy and Bess\u2019<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, March 29, 1998. <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/1998\/03\/29\/theater\/theater-on-hearing-her-sing-gershwin-made-porgy-porgy-and-bess.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nytimes.com\/1998\/03\/29\/theater\/theater-on-hearing-her-sing-gershwin-made-porgy-porgy-and-bess.html?pagewanted=all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe tough girls tough it out,\u201d she [Anne Wiggins Brown]\u00a0said with a wry grin. \u201cI\u2019ve lived a strange kind of life\u2014half black, half white, half isolated, half in the spotlight. Many things that I wanted as a young person for my career were denied to me because of my color.\u201d \u201cOn the other hand, many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11877,11876,11887,2640,2327,11888],"class_list":["post-25435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-anne-brown","tag-anne-wiggins-brown","tag-barry-singer","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-todd-duncan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435","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=25435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}