{"id":39852,"date":"2015-02-06T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39852"},"modified":"2015-12-02T22:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T22:32:54","slug":"passing-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39852","title":{"rendered":"Passing the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karljacoby.com\/articles\/passing-the-line\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Passing the Line<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karljacoby.com\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Jacoby<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-20<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/karljacoby.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Jacoby<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who was Guillermo Eliseo?<\/p>\n<p>Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilded_Age\" target=\"_blank\">Gilded Age<\/a> as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era\u2019s most noteworthy events\u2014scandalous trials, unexpected disappearances, diplomatic controversies. To many, the answer was obvious. The tall, exquisitely dressed figure with the carefully coifed mustache, was an upper-class <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican<\/a>\u2014in fact \u201cthe wealthiest resident of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico_City\" target=\"_blank\">City of Mexico<\/a>\u201d and \u201ca prominent Mexican politician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For confirmation, one needed to look no farther than his elegant appearance and his frequent journeys south of the border. Indeed, based on his connections with Latin America, he was widely believed to be, if not a Mexican, than a \u201cSpaniard\u201d or \u201ca Cuban gentleman of high degree.\u201d At least a few observers, however, ventured a quite different answer: despite the widespread acceptance of Eliseo\u2019s \u201cLatin-American extraction,\u201d he was not of Hispanic descent at all. Rather, he was just \u201can ordinary American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>\u201d named William (or W.H.) Ellis, who had managed to play an elaborate game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/karljacoby.com\/articles\/passing-the-line\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing the Line Karl Jacoby 2012-12-20 Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Who was Guillermo Eliseo? Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the Gilded Age as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era\u2019s most noteworthy events\u2014scandalous trials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,21,459,8,103,6462,6940,20],"tags":[19292,22157,19293,19295,19294,22156],"class_list":["post-39852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-guillermo-eliseo","tag-guillermo-enrique-eliseo","tag-karl-jacoby","tag-w-h-ellis","tag-william-ellis","tag-william-henry-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39852","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=39852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44428,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39852\/revisions\/44428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}