{"id":35619,"date":"2014-01-25T18:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35619"},"modified":"2019-08-31T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:06:09","slug":"flight-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35619","title":{"rendered":"Flight: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flight: A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Louisiana State University Press<\/a>
\nApril 1998 (Originally published in 1926)
\n304 pages
\n5.50 x 8.50 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780807122808<\/p>\n

Walter White<\/a><\/strong> (1893-1955)<\/p>\n

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Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight<\/em> focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes<\/a>, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans<\/a> of her birth, Mimi never encountered the hierarchies of skin color that existed elsewhere. But when her family moves to Atlanta<\/a>, she embarks on a lifelong lesson about what it really means to belong to a people. From the Atlanta riot of 1906<\/a> to her shameful expulsion from black bourgeois society because of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, to her working-class status in Philadelphia<\/a> and Harlem<\/a>, Mimi eventually decides to escape her miseries by passing for white in New York City<\/a>. There, her success exceeds her expectations but even so cannot quell a recurrent yearning.<\/p>\n

Walter White (1893\u20131955), a blond-haired, blue-eyed African American, was a native of Atlanta and an adopted New Yorker. His other works are the novel Fire in the Flint<\/em> and an autobiography, A Man Called White<\/a><\/em>. He was a major figure in the NAACP<\/a> for more than three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flight: A Novel Louisiana State University Press April 1998 (Originally published in 1926) 304 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807122808 Walter White (1893-1955) Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[1051,885,6786,1929],"class_list":["post-35619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-louisiana-state-university-press","tag-lsu-press","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-walter-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35619","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=35619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58796,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35619\/revisions\/58796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}