{"id":47803,"date":"2016-06-19T02:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47803"},"modified":"2016-06-19T02:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T02:16:23","slug":"anatole-broyard-wanted-to-be-a-writer-and-not-just-a-negro-writer-consigned-to-the-back-of-the-literary-bus-he-followed-the-trail-blazed-by-tens-of-thousands-of-light-skinne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47803","title":{"rendered":"Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer\u2014and not just a \u201cNegro writer\u201d consigned to the back of the literary bus. He followed the trail blazed by tens of thousands of light-skinned black Americans."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anatole_Broyard\" target=\"_blank\">Anatole Broyard<\/a> wanted to be a writer\u2014and not just a \u201cNegro writer\u201d consigned to the back of the literary bus. He followed the trail blazed by tens of thousands of light-skinned black Americans. He methodically cut ties with his family (including a mother and two sisters) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">took up life as a white man<\/a> with a white wife in white <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connecticut\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut<\/a>. By the late 1980&#8217;s, he had been\u201cwhite\u201d for 40 years, with two adult children who were unaware that they were part of a large black family that included an aunt who lived an hour away in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brent Staples, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47799\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Observer; Back When Skin Color Was Destiny \u2014 Unless You Passed for White<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, September 7, 2003. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/07\/opinion\/editorial-observer-back-when-skin-color-was-destiny-unless-you-passed-for-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/07\/opinion\/editorial-observer-back-when-skin-color-was-destiny-unless-you-passed-for-white.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer\u2014and not just a \u201cNegro writer\u201d consigned to the back of the literary bus. He followed the trail blazed by tens of thousands of light-skinned black Americans. He methodically cut ties with his family (including a mother and two sisters) and took up life as a white man with [&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":[5427,1804,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-47803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-anatole-broyard","tag-brent-staples","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47803","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=47803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47804,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47803\/revisions\/47804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}