{"id":40454,"date":"2015-03-15T02:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40454"},"modified":"2015-03-15T02:16:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:16:57","slug":"a-chosen-exile-examining-african-americans-passing-as-white-in-america-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40454","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Chosen Exile:\u2019 Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsone.com\/3094147\/a-chosen-exile-examining-african-americans-passing-as-white-in-america-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018A Chosen Exile:\u2019 Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvone.tv\/category\/shows\/newsone-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewsOne Now<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newsone.com\" target=\"_blank\">NewsOne<\/a><br \/>\n2015-02-27<\/p>\n<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> joined <a href=\"http:\/\/rolandsmartin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Martin<\/a> on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/tvone.tv\/category\/shows\/newsone-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewsOne Now<\/a>\u201d to discuss 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<\/p>\n<p>Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when individuals decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass as a White<\/a> person, \u201cPeople had to separate from their families \u2026 if someone were to die, they would not let the family know\u201d until a month later in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hobbs, there were instances when people did not find out that a relative who was passing as White had died until they read it in an obituary in a news paper or someone happened to tell them long after the person had passed away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and watch the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsone.com\/3094147\/a-chosen-exile-examining-african-americans-passing-as-white-in-america-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A Chosen Exile:\u2019 Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO] NewsOne Now NewsOne 2015-02-27 Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on \u201cNewsOne Now\u201d to discuss her new book, \u201cA Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.\u201d Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,13743,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[9812,17448,13046,19619,19618],"class_list":["post-40454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-elsie-roxborough","tag-newsone","tag-newsone-now","tag-roland-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40454","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=40454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}