{"id":37646,"date":"2014-10-09T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37646"},"modified":"2016-11-07T01:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T01:39:29","slug":"racial-passing-was-a-painful-way-to-improve-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37646","title":{"rendered":"Racial passing was a painful way to improve life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2014\/09\/19\/racial-passing-painful-way-improve-life\/15902345\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Racial passing was a painful way to improve life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\" target=\"_blank\">Asbury Park Press<\/a><br \/>\nNeptune, New Jersey<br \/>\n2014-09-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KellyJaneCotter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kelly-Jane Cotter<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>Racial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> helped African-Americans create new lives in a time of danger. But a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morristown,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Morristown<\/a> author\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\">new book<\/a> also examines the complex legacy of passing, and the pain of leaving families behind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> has a gap in her history that will be familiar to many African-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy aunt told me a story of a relative who passed as white in the \u201930s and \u201940s,\u201d Hobbs said. \u201cHer mother believed it was the best thing to improve her life circumstances, but my relative did not want to do it. She didn\u2019t want to go. She didn\u2019t want to leave the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=South_Side,_Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">South side of Chicago<\/a> and everyone she knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the light-skinned young woman left her darker family members and started anew. She married a white man and had white children. She \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, she gets a very inconvenient call from her mother,\u201d Hobbs said. \u201cHer father had died, and her mother wanted her to come home for the funeral. But she couldn\u2019t. How could she go? How would she have explained this to her husband and children, that suddenly there was this black family in Chicago? She didn\u2019t go, and she never went back.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2014\/09\/19\/racial-passing-painful-way-improve-life\/15902345\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial passing was a painful way to improve life Asbury Park Press Neptune, New Jersey 2014-09-19 Kelly-Jane Cotter, Staff Writer Racial passing helped African-Americans create new lives in a time of danger. But a Morristown author\u2019s new book also examines the complex legacy of passing, and the pain of leaving families behind. Allyson Hobbs has [&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":[9812,18103,18104],"class_list":["post-37646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-asbury-park-press","tag-kelly-jane-cotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646","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=37646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49832,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646\/revisions\/49832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}