{"id":40270,"date":"2015-03-06T02:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40270"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:59:08","slug":"the-next-great-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40270","title":{"rendered":"The Next Great Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/the-next-great-migration.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Next Great Migration<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomaschattwill\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris\" target=\"_blank\">PARIS<\/a> \u2014 AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Algeria\" target=\"_blank\">Algeria<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/France\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews: \u201cWhere could we go?\u201d He mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tel_Aviv\" target=\"_blank\">Tel Aviv<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>, but the location mattered less than the reassurance that departure remained an option. He\u2019s not alone in this thinking: 7,000 French Jews emigrated in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, as I watched with outrage at the dizzying spate of unpunished extrajudicial police killings of black men and women across America, I\u2019ve wondered why more black Americans don\u2019t think similarly. Why shouldn\u2019t more of us weigh expatriation, even if only temporary, as a viable means of securing those lofty yet elusive ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?<\/p>\n<p>Blacks leaving America in search of equality is not new. The practice dates from at least <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_%281789%E2%80%931849%29\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a>, when free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattoes<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> sent their children to France to live in accordance with their means and not their color. It continued after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>, when a number of black <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G.I._(military)\" target=\"_blank\">G.I.s<\/a>, artists and jazzmen shared <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Wright_(author)\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Wright\u2019s<\/a> sentiment that there is \u201cmore freedom in one square block of Paris than there is in the entire United States of America.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/the-next-great-migration.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Next Great Migration The New York Times 2015-03-01 Thomas Chatterton Williams PARIS \u2014 AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,20],"tags":[2640,2327,4725,969],"class_list":["post-40270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-thomas-chatterton-williams","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40270","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=40270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46363,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40270\/revisions\/46363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}