{"id":30219,"date":"2013-04-08T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30219"},"modified":"2013-04-08T02:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:38:23","slug":"a-white-face-with-a-forgotten-african-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30219","title":{"rendered":"A White Face With A Forgotten African Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/11\/24\/165512010\/a-white-face-with-a-forgotten-african-family\" target=\"_blank\">A White Face With A Forgotten African Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/all-things-considered\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Considered<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2012-11-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/102444338\/jacki-lyden\" target=\"_blank\">Jacki Lyden<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p>Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, <a href=\"http:\/\/authors.simonandschuster.com\/Joe-Mozingo\/79847070\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Mozingo<\/a> always thought his family name was Italian.<\/p>\n<p>But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his unusual-sounding last name.<\/p>\n<p>The journey to discover the truth about the Mozingo name took him from the libraries of Los Angeles to the courthouses and plantations of Virginia and, finally, to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Mozingo spoke with weekends on <em>All Thing Considered<\/em> guest host Jacki Lyden about his first book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30193\" target=\"_blank\">The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family<\/a><\/em>, which chronicles that journey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/v2\/mediaPlayer.html?action=2&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=165512010&amp;m=165829704\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2012\/11\/20121124_atc_06.mp3?dl=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=165512010\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A White Face With A Forgotten African Family All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-11-24 Jacki Lyden, Host Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, Joe Mozingo always thought his family name was Italian. But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,2850,459,13743,8,6940,20,693],"tags":[2342,12377,14303,2309],"class_list":["post-30219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-audio","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-all-things-considered","tag-jacki-lyden","tag-joe-mozingo","tag-national-public-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219","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=30219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}