{"id":45673,"date":"2016-02-16T00:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45673"},"modified":"2016-03-01T02:06:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:06:44","slug":"how-and-why-did-they-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45673","title":{"rendered":"How and why did they do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>How and why did they do it?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stowehousecincy.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Beecher Stowe House<\/a><br \/>\n2950 Gilbert Avenue<br \/>\nCincinnati, Ohio 45206<br \/>\n<strong>Sunday, 2016-02-28, 13:00 EST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stowehousecincy.org\/uploads\/3\/4\/1\/7\/34177226\/1455239503.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between the the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passed as white<\/a>, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a>, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stowehousecincy.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Beecher Stowe House<\/a> Sunday, February 28, at 1 pm to discuss her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, published Harvard University Press.<br \/>\n<em>A Chosen Exile<\/em> was selected as an Editors&#8217; Choice by <em>The New York Times<\/em> Book Review, <em>The Root<\/em>, and <em>The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a story of challenges and loss in a country obsessed with racial distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>Free to the public. Refreshments will be served. Reservations available by e-mail @ <a href=\"mailto:friendsharrietbeecherstowe@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">friendsharrietbeecherstowe@gmail.com<\/a> or call 513-751-0651.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How and why did they do it? Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 Sunday, 2016-02-28, 13:00 EST (Local Time) Between the the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. Allyson Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,8,6462,20],"tags":[9812,23005],"class_list":["post-45673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-harriet-beecher-stowe-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45673","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=45673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45676,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45673\/revisions\/45676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}