{"id":37644,"date":"2014-10-08T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37644"},"modified":"2014-10-08T20:45:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:45:59","slug":"a-history-of-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37644","title":{"rendered":"A History of Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardpress.typepad.com\/hup_publicity\/2014\/10\/allyson-hobbs-on-history-of-passing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A History of Loss<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardpress.typepad.com\/hup_publicity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University Press Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-08<\/p>\n<p>Between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passed as white<\/a>, leaving behind families, friends, and communities without any available avenue for return. As historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> explains in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, scholars have traditionally paid far more attention to what was gained by passing as white than what was lost by leaving a black racial identity behind. Her book, she writes, \u201cis an effort to recover those lives,\u201d to write the history of passing as a history of loss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardpress.typepad.com\/hup_publicity\/2014\/10\/allyson-hobbs-on-history-of-passing.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A History of Loss Harvard University Press Blog Harvard University Press 2014-10-08 Between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and communities without any available avenue for return. As historian Allyson Hobbs explains in A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, [&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":[9812,340,18102],"class_list":["post-37644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-harvard-university-press","tag-harvard-university-press-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37644","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=37644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}