{"id":44433,"date":"2015-12-03T02:37:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44433"},"modified":"2015-12-03T02:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:37:39","slug":"leaving-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44433","title":{"rendered":"Leaving to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/12\/02\/leaving-learn\" target=\"_blank\">Leaving to learn<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia Daily Spectator<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-02<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/claire-liebmann-500616bb\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Liebmann<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/12\/02\/leaving-learn\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/sites\/default\/files\/unnamed_29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Courtesy of Karl Jacoby<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, <a href=\"http:\/\/karljacoby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Jacoby<\/a>, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Texan<\/a> slave who built a million dollar fortune while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">posing as<\/a> a Mexican millionaire in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>, essentially hacking the system of American expansionism and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking Ellis as he took on different names and personas was difficult: Ellis deliberately introduced falsehoods into the historical record to ensure that his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a> was accepted by the broader society, but Jacoby stuck with it. Years later, this chance encounter with Ellis\u2019 story would come to drive his personal historical research. Undertaking a yearlong leave of absence, he pursued his interest in reclaiming untold narratives, working on his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44426\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jacoby\u2019s academic career is driven by his interest in complicating comfortable historical narratives. This process of reinvention and rediscovery depends on another kind of separation from the establishment: Jacoby\u2019s reliance on his leave of absence as a means of promoting academic innovation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaspectator.com\/eye\/2015\/12\/02\/leaving-learn\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis\u2014a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,2895,21,459,8,103,6462,6940,20],"tags":[22162,1920,19292,22157,19293,19295,19294,22158,22156],"class_list":["post-44433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-claire-liebmann","tag-columbia-daily-spectator","tag-guillermo-eliseo","tag-guillermo-enrique-eliseo","tag-karl-jacoby","tag-w-h-ellis","tag-william-ellis","tag-william-h-ellis","tag-william-henry-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44433","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=44433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44434,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44433\/revisions\/44434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}