{"id":44593,"date":"2015-12-14T03:13:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44593"},"modified":"2015-12-14T03:13:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T03:13:24","slug":"conventional-wisdom-tells-us-that-a-history-of-passing-cannot-be-written-those-who-passed-left-no-trace-in-the-historical-record-and-only-novelists-playwrights-and-poets-could-write-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44593","title":{"rendered":"\u201cConventional wisdom tells us that a history of passing cannot be written: those who passed left no trace in the historical record, and only novelists, playwrights, and poets could write about this clandestine practice. But I believed that the sources were out there, just waiting to be discovered.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cConventional wisdom tells us that a history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a> cannot be written: those who passed left no trace in the historical record, and only novelists, playwrights, and poets could write about this clandestine practice. But I believed that the sources were out there, just waiting to be discovered. So I went into the archives looking for ghosts, hoping to tell their stories.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aramgoudsouzian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aram Goudsouzian<\/a>,\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44589\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States<\/a>,\u201d <em>Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers &amp; passersby<\/em>, December 11, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/chapter16.org\/content\/allyson-hobbs-uncovers-fascinating-history-racial-passing-united-states\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chapter16.org\/content\/allyson-hobbs-uncovers-fascinating-history-racial-passing-united-states<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConventional wisdom tells us that a history of passing cannot be written: those who passed left no trace in the historical record, and only novelists, playwrights, and poets could write about this clandestine practice. But I believed that the sources were out there, just waiting to be discovered. So I went into the archives looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9812,22258,22257],"class_list":["post-44593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-aram-goudsouzian","tag-chapter-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593","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=44593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44594,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44593\/revisions\/44594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}