{"id":36850,"date":"2014-07-23T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T01:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36850"},"modified":"2016-05-21T23:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T23:31:39","slug":"how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36850","title":{"rendered":"How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2014\/07\/17\/332380449\/how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\" target=\"_blank\">Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2014-07-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tanvi Misra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while back, it was Macklemore and the Harlem Shakers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we have come across a story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> era about cultural mimicry between people of color.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-20th century America, the turban was a tool that people of color used for &#8220;confounding the color lines,&#8221; writes Manan Desai, board member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saadigitalarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Asian American Digital Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. In some places, if you could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a> yourself off as something other than black, you could circumvent some amount of discrimination. People of color \u2014 both foreigners and African-Americans \u2014 employed this to their advantage. Some did it just to get by in a racist society, some to make a political statement, and others \u2014 performers and businessmen \u2014 to gain access to fame and money they wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/codeswitch\/2014\/07\/17\/332380449\/how-turbans-helped-some-blacks-go-incognito-in-the-jim-crow-era\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-07-19 Tanvi Misra There&#8217;s a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[14788,2309,17601,17602],"class_list":["post-36850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-national-public-radio","tag-tanvi-misra","tag-turbans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36850","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=36850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47062,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36850\/revisions\/47062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}