{"id":38053,"date":"2014-11-02T01:46:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38053"},"modified":"2014-11-02T01:46:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T01:46:55","slug":"allyson-hobbs-a-chosen-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38053","title":{"rendered":"Allyson Hobbs \u2013 \u201cA Chosen Exile\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tavis-smiley-radio-show\/allyson-hobbs-a-chosen-exile\"><em><strong>Allyson Hobbs \u2013 \u201cA Chosen Exile\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tavissmileyradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tavis Smiley Show<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-31<\/p>\n<p>Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\">A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/a>\u201d, Stanford University historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> explores the ways in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> was a strategy for survival and an avenue to loss.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/174674224&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"75%\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nListen to the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tavis-smiley-radio-show\/allyson-hobbs-a-chosen-exile\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allyson Hobbs \u2013 \u201cA Chosen Exile\u201d The Tavis Smiley Show 2014-10-31 Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, \u201cA Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life\u201d, Stanford University historian Allyson Hobbs explores the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[9812,7561,18321,4509],"class_list":["post-38053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-tavis-smiley","tag-tavis-smiley-show","tag-the-tavis-smiley-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38053","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=38053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}