{"id":41405,"date":"2015-06-13T23:37:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41405"},"modified":"2019-01-09T22:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:25:46","slug":"soul-sister-30th-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41405","title":{"rendered":"Soul Sister (30th Anniversary Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soul-Sister-30th-Anniversary-Edition\/dp\/0967401305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soul Sister (30th Anniversary Edition)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crossroads International Publishing<br \/>\n1999 (Originally published in 1969)<br \/>\n212 pages<br \/>\n6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0967401300<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grace_Halsell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Grace Halsell<\/strong><\/a> (1923-2000)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soul-Sister-30th-Anniversary-Edition\/dp\/0967401305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41F5JW50YZL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi Delta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Grace Halsell changed the color of her skin and sojourned through Black America as a &#8220;soul sister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Few whites have had the guts to embark on such a hazardous adventure. Grace Halsell&#8217;s ordeal as a black-skinned American is a unique and deeply moving story of what it is really like to be black in a white world. From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harlem<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi_Delta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mississippi delta<\/a>, her experiences reveal the hard and bitter truth about men and women trapped in a desperate struggle for survival, identity, and originality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[20242,20243],"class_list":["post-41405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-crossroads-international-publishing","tag-grace-halsell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41405","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=41405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57264,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41405\/revisions\/57264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}