{"id":46894,"date":"2016-05-09T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46894"},"modified":"2016-05-09T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:22:59","slug":"long-time-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46894","title":{"rendered":"Long Time Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/25\/books\/review\/Finnerty-t.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Long Time Passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/books\/review\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Book Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2009-01-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/contributor\/amy-finnerty\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amy Finnerty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baz Dreisinger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6478\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture<\/em><\/a> (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How black is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eminem\" target=\"_blank\">Eminem<\/a>? How white is our president? We can\u2019t help asking these awkward questions as we digest \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6478\" target=\"_blank\">Near Black<\/a>,\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jjay.cuny.edu\/faculty\/baz-dreisinger\" target=\"_blank\">Baz Dreisinger<\/a>. A freelance journalist and an assistant professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, she explores cases of \u201creverse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">racial passing<\/a>\u201d \u2014 as distinct from the more conventional, black-as-white \u201cpassing,\u201d for so long a feature of our tortured society. Presenting \u201cnarratives about white people who either envision themselves or are envisioned by others as being or becoming black,\u201d and drawing on examples ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"_blank\">Twain\u2019s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44888\" target=\"_blank\">Pudd\u2019nhead Wilson<\/a>\u201d to the sophomoric genre film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soul_Man_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Man<\/a>,\u201d she argues that the appropriation of black identity by whites \u2014 both literally and metaphorically \u2014 has been a potent strain in American culture for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cwhite passing\u201d is broadly defined here. A white journalist with dyed skin infiltrating black precincts and writing about it is passing. So is a \u201cjive-slanging\u201d white D.J. A white immigrant sold into slavery in the early 19th century (a case of \u201ccoerced passing\u201d) also has a place in Dreisinger\u2019s compendium of racial mix-ups, satires and cautionary tales&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/25\/books\/review\/Finnerty-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Time Passing Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2009-01-23 Amy Finnerty Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can\u2019t help asking these awkward questions as we digest \u201cNear Black,\u201d by Baz Dreisinger. A freelance journalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,6462,20],"tags":[23739,2710,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-46894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-amy-finnerty","tag-baz-dreisinger","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46894","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=46894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46895,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46894\/revisions\/46895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}