{"id":40712,"date":"2015-04-01T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40712"},"modified":"2015-04-01T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:37:07","slug":"captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40712","title":{"rendered":"Captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.pitt.edu\/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34419\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Captivity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.pitt.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pittsburgh Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 1989<br \/>\n88 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x\u00a08 1\/2<br \/>\nISBN: 9780822954224<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toiderricotte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Toi Derricotte<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.pitt.edu\/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34419\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upress.pitt.edu\/htmlSourceFiles\/images\/BookCovers\/9780822954224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? <em>Captivity<\/em> explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Promised_Land\" target=\"_blank\">Promised Land<\/a>, the soul trapped in exile from God.<\/p>\n<p>View the table of contents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.pitt.edu\/htmlSourceFiles\/pdfs\/9780822954224toc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captivity University of Pittsburgh Press November 1989 88 pages 5 1\/2 x\u00a08 1\/2 ISBN: 9780822954224 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,1617],"tags":[19787,1781],"class_list":["post-40712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-toi-derricotte","tag-university-of-pittsburgh-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712","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=40712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}