{"id":45135,"date":"2016-01-17T03:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T03:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45135"},"modified":"2018-11-06T22:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:08:04","slug":"color-lines-racial-passing-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45135","title":{"rendered":"Color Lines: Racial Passing in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Color Lines: Racial Passing in America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BackStory with the American History Guys<\/a> (A program of the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities)
\nCharlottesville,\u00a0Virginia
\n2016-01-15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nM. H. Kimball portrait of Isaac White and Rosina Downs, two New Orleans slave children, c. 1863. (Library of Congress).<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

On this episode of BackStory<\/em>, the Guys will consider how and why Americans throughout the centuries have crossed the lines of racial identity<\/a>, and find out what the history of passing<\/a> has to say about race, identity, and privilege in America. We\u2019ll look at stories of African-Americans who passed as white to escape slavery or Jim Crow<\/a> and find out how the \u201cone-drop rule<\/a>\u201d enabled one blonde-haired, blue-eyed American to live a double life without ever arousing suspicion. We\u2019ll also explore the story of an African-American musician who pioneered a genre of exotic music with a bejeweled turban and an invented biography, and examine the hidden costs of crossing over.<\/p>\n