{"id":41744,"date":"2015-07-13T01:29:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41744"},"modified":"2015-07-26T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T15:30:42","slug":"historian-allyson-hobbs-on-the-history-of-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41744","title":{"rendered":"Historian Allyson Hobbs on the History of Racial Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/7th-avenue-project\/racial-passing-allyson-hobbs\" target=\"_blank\">Historian Allyson Hobbs on the History of Racial Passing<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/7thavenueproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 7th Avenue Project: Thinking Persons&#8217; Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Pollie<\/strong>, Host, Creator and Producer<\/p>\n<p>The recent case of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rachel_Dolezal\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> \u2013 the \u201cblack\u201d activist outed as white \u2013 may have seemed novel, but she\u2019s actually part of an old tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a> in this country. How long has passing been going on and how has it changed over the years? What\u2019s it tell us about racial categories and color lines? Why are we so fascinated with passing stories? I spoke with historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> about her book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\">A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/214046170&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Download the interview (01:11:05) <a href=\"https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/214046170\/download?client_id=a3e059563d7fd3372b49b37f00a00bcf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian Allyson Hobbs on the History of Racial Passing The 7th Avenue Project: Thinking Persons&#8217; Radio 2015-06-28 Robert Pollie, Host, Creator and Producer The recent case of Rachel Dolezal \u2013 the \u201cblack\u201d activist outed as white \u2013 may have seemed novel, but she\u2019s actually part of an old tradition of racial passing in this country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,13743,8,20],"tags":[20426,9812,20257,20241,20427,20425,20424],"class_list":["post-41744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-7th-avenue-project","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-robert-pollie","tag-the-7th-avenue-project","tag-the-7th-avenue-project-thinking-persons-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744","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=41744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41972,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41744\/revisions\/41972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}