{"id":40366,"date":"2015-03-09T01:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40366"},"modified":"2015-03-10T13:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:19:48","slug":"book-discussion-on-a-chosen-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40366","title":{"rendered":"Book Discussion on A Chosen Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?324595-1\/book-discussion-chosen-exile\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Book Discussion on A Chosen Exile<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\" target=\"_blank\">C-SPAN: Created\u00a0by Cable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recorded on <strong>2015-02-27<\/strong> at:<\/p>\n<p>The National Archives Museum<br \/>\nWilliam G. McGowan Theater<br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> talked about her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, in which she examines the lives of African Americans who chose to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass as white<\/a> between the 18th and mid-20th centuries.\u2002In her book, the author reports on the political and social ramifications of \u201cpassing,\u201d which included greater rights and opportunities but also isolation and disregard from the greater African American community.<\/p>\n<p>[I ask Dr. Hobbs the final question for her at\u00a000:56:26.]<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire video and read the transcript\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?324595-1\/book-discussion-chosen-exile\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Discussion on A Chosen Exile C-SPAN: Created\u00a0by Cable Recorded on 2015-02-27 at: The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Washington, D.C. Allyson Hobbs talked about her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, in which she examines the lives of African Americans who chose to pass as white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[9812,4759],"class_list":["post-40366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-c-span"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40366","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=40366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}