{"id":44921,"date":"2016-01-01T00:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44921"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T00:41:43","slug":"best-of-2015-12-authors-on-remarkable-transformations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44921","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Christian Science Monitor<\/a>
\n2015-12-28<\/p>\n

Randy Dotinga<\/a><\/strong>, President
\nAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors<\/em><\/p>\n

This year, I\u2019ve interviewed many authors about moments of transformation for Q&A features in the Monitor. Here are some of my favorite answers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Transformation is an integral part of story-telling: How do we get from there to here, and what have we become? For some of us, these tales are monumental in scope.<\/p>\n

We may embrace a new gender, declare ourselves to be another race, or find long-elusive happiness in our final days. Or we might disrupt the world of fiction, turn crime-fighting into crime-supporting or replace old obsessions with new ones.<\/p>\n

This year, I\u2019ve interviewed many authors about moments of transformation for Q&A features in the Monitor. Among other things, we\u2019ve talked about the paths from teen to terrorist, from nobody to military hero, from laughingstock to landmark.<\/p>\n

Here are excerpts from a dozen of our conversations.<\/p>\n

…4.<\/strong> Allyson Hobbs<\/a> comments on the black response to “passing<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Most blacks were pretty sympathetic, although there were definitely some who were not. Particularly during the years of Jim Crow<\/a>, people recognized how difficult life was for blacks and recognized this was a way of getting ahead.<\/p>\n

There was some humor or levity to it, a kind of practical joke at the expense of whites. It was very delicious for some blacks.<\/p>\n

But there were some blacks who definitely disagreed with the practice of passing. They felt it was important for blacks to stay within the race and fight for the race.”<\/p>\n

\u2013 Allyson Hobbs, author of \u201cA Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/a>,\u201d on how blacks responded to those who \u201cpassed\u201d as white. (Click here<\/a> for full interview.)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations Christian Science Monitor 2015-12-28 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors This year, I\u2019ve interviewed many authors about moments of transformation for Q&A features in the Monitor. Here are some of my favorite answers. Transformation is an integral part of story-telling: How do we get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[9812,13974,20250,5666],"class_list":["post-44921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-christian-science-monitor","tag-randy-dotinga","tag-the-christian-science-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921","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=44921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44922,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44921\/revisions\/44922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}