{"id":31677,"date":"2013-06-12T22:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31677"},"modified":"2013-09-15T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:40:07","slug":"tragic-mulatto-girl-wonder-the-paradoxical-life-of-philippa-duke-schuyler-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31677","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisefunderburg.com\/writ\/tragic.html\" target=\"_self\">Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qbr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">QBR The Black Book Review<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary\/March 1996<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisefunderburg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lise Funderburg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4442\" target=\"_blank\">Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler<\/a><\/em>. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509608-8.<\/p>\n<p>As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippa_Schuyler\" target=\"_blank\">Philippa Duke Schuyler<\/a> incited both awe and envy. Performing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair\" target=\"_blank\">1939 New York World&#8217;s Fair<\/a> when she was just eight, she seemed to live a charmed life, full of whirlwind concert tours in distant lands, where she met politicians, artists and royals. But while she was known as a gifted and serious musician and, later, a journalist, she was also viewed as the quintessential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic mulatto<\/a>. (Her father was the conservative black journalist and satirical novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Schuyler\" target=\"_blank\">George Schuyler<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/bshc-granbury.org\/wp\/josephine\" target=\"_blank\">her mother, a rebellious white Southern belle who married across the color line<\/a>.) She seemed trapped at times by her talents and the constraints of relentlessly watchful parents whose aspirations for her were often suffocating. She acquired a reputation both as a temptress whose greatest interest in life was men and sex and as a perpetually frightened child. When she died in 1967, at age 35, in a helicopter crash in Vietnam during a war-orphan airlift, she met with a final irony. For all her achievements and worldliness, she could not swim to save her life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisefunderburg.com\/writ\/tragic.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February\/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509608-8. As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,5,8,20,25],"tags":[834,1753,1757,1754,1755,1758],"class_list":["post-31677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-george-schuyler","tag-kathryn-talalay","tag-lise-funderburg","tag-philippa-duke-schuyler","tag-philippa-schuyler","tag-qbr-the-black-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31677","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=31677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}