{"id":29516,"date":"2013-03-13T05:45:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29516"},"modified":"2013-03-13T05:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:45:38","slug":"love-in-black-and-white-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29516","title":{"rendered":"Love in black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\/issues\/2009\/04\/22\/pages\/7196\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love in black and white<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton Alumni Weekly<\/a><br \/>\n2009-04-22<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawrence Otis Graham<\/strong> &#8217;83<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/history\/people\/display_person.xml?netid=masand@princ\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Sandweiss<\/a> examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a> in America<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarence_King\" target=\"_blank\">Clarence King<\/a>, a celebrated explorer, geologist, and surveyor in 19th-century America, chose to set that identity aside \u2014 and live as a working-class black man during a time of harsh racial segregation in the United States. He did it for love.<\/p>\n<p>King moved back and forth between two sides of the color line: as the very public white, Newport-born, Yale-educated cartographer and researcher of the American West, and at other times as the strangely private man pretending to be a black Pullman train porter and itinerant steelworker (using the alias \u201cJames Todd\u201d) who married an African-American woman. Martha Sandweiss, who joined Princeton\u2019s history department this semester, explores King\u2019s double life in her book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=8414\" target=\"_blank\">Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line<\/a><\/em>, published by Penguin Press in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a> was surely attempted by some light-skinned blacks who wanted to escape the economic disadvantages tied to black life at the time,\u201d explains Sandweiss, \u201cit was virtually unheard-of for whites to voluntarily choose to face social and economic discrimination and live as black people.\u201d But after falling in love with a black nursemaid, Ada Copeland, in 1888, that is what Clarence King did for 13 years. His wife and their five children had no idea that he was, in fact, white, and that he was the famous Clarence King, until he confessed it on his deathbed in 1901&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/paw.princeton.edu\/issues\/2009\/04\/22\/pages\/7196\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love in black and white Princeton Alumni Weekly 2009-04-22 Lawrence Otis Graham &#8217;83 Martha Sandweiss examines racial passing in America Clarence King, a celebrated explorer, geologist, and surveyor in 19th-century America, chose to set that identity aside \u2014 and live as a working-class black man during a time of harsh racial segregation in the United [&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":[3563,13998,13997,584,3562,3561,1895],"class_list":["post-29516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-clarence-king","tag-lawrence-graham","tag-lawrence-o-graham","tag-lawrence-otis-graham","tag-martha-a-sandweiss","tag-martha-sandweiss","tag-princeton-alumni-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29516","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=29516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}