{"id":37866,"date":"2014-10-22T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37866"},"modified":"2014-10-22T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:50:00","slug":"season-2-episode-6-stanford-prof-allyson-hobbs-talks-about-a-chosen-exile-a-history-of-racial-passing-in-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37866","title":{"rendered":"Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themixedexperience.com\/season-2-episode-7-stanford-prof-allyson-hobbs-talks-about-a-chosen-exile-a-history-of-racial-passing-in-american-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themixedexperience.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Mixed Experience<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themixedexperience.com\/host-heidi-durrow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Heidi Durrow<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Allyson Hobbs<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, a most excellent book by Stanford Professor Allyson Hobbs. She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36619\" target=\"_blank\">recently did a TED Talk about the role of grief in these narratives of racial crossing<\/a>. The book very aptly and eloquently \u201cexamines how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> became both a strategy for survival and an avenue to loss.\u201d You will love this interview with Allyson Hobbs as she explains the inspiration for this book, a brief discussion on the idea of \u201cpassing as black\u201d and much much more.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"LastFramePlayer\" width=\"173\" height=\"60\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" align=\"top\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/resources\/talkshoe\/images\/swf\/lastEpisodePlayer.swf?fileUrl=http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-121722\/TS-895120.mp3\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#EEF9C1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.talkshoe.com\/resources\/talkshoe\/images\/swf\/lastEpisodePlayer.swf?fileUrl=http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-121722\/TS-895120.mp3\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#EEF9C1\" play=\"true\" loop=\"true\" scale=\"exactfit\" name=\"LastFramePlayer\" salign=\"lt\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" wmode=\"transparent\" align=\"top\" height=\"60\" width=\"173\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the episode <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themixedexperience.com\/season-2-episode-7-stanford-prof-allyson-hobbs-talks-about-a-chosen-exile-a-history-of-racial-passing-in-american-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the episode <a href=\"http:\/\/recordings.talkshoe.com\/TC-121722\/TS-895120.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life The Mixed Experience 2014-10-20 Heidi Durrow, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[9812,65,18228],"class_list":["post-37866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-the-mixed-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37866","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=37866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}