{"id":46601,"date":"2016-04-13T00:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46601"},"modified":"2016-04-13T00:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:34:46","slug":"we-assigned-allyson-hobbss-book-because-we-thought-it-was-a-model-for-writing-cultural-history-it-is-beautifully-crafted-and-draws-on-sources-in-very-clear-ways-to-tell-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46601","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe assigned [Allyson] Hobbs\u2019s book because we thought it was a model for writing cultural history \u2013 it is beautifully crafted and draws on sources in very clear ways to tell its story.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe assigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Allyson] Hobbs\u2019s<\/a> book [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\">A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/a><\/em>] because we thought it was a model for writing cultural history \u2013 it is beautifully crafted and draws on sources in very clear ways to tell its story. We hoped to inspire our history students to commit themselves in similar ways to telling the stories of people who are often lost to history,\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colgate.edu\/facultysearch\/facultydirectory\/dbouk\" target=\"_blank\">Colgate University Assistant Professor of History Daniel Bouk<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Megan Leo, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46586\" target=\"_blank\">Uncovering Hidden Histories: Hobbs Discusses Her Award-Winning Book<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Colgate Maroon-News<\/em>, March 31, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecolgatemaroonnews.com\/news\/article_f2fab440-f757-11e5-9c94-cb38fb52fc0d.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thecolgatemaroonnews.com\/news\/article_f2fab440-f757-11e5-9c94-cb38fb52fc0d.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe assigned [Allyson] Hobbs\u2019s book [A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life] because we thought it was a model for writing cultural history \u2013 it is beautifully crafted and draws on sources in very clear ways to tell its story. We hoped to inspire our history students to commit themselves in [&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":[9812,23533,23536,23534,23532],"class_list":["post-46601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-colgate-maroon-news","tag-daniel-bouk","tag-megan-leo","tag-the-colgate-maroon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601","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=46601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46602,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions\/46602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}