{"id":48003,"date":"2016-06-29T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48003"},"modified":"2016-07-24T02:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T02:30:38","slug":"charles-blow-blows-his-horn-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48003","title":{"rendered":"Charles Blow blows his horn in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/27\/charles-blow-blows-his-horn-in-the-new-york-times\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Charles Blow blows his horn in the <\/strong><\/em><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vikki_bynum\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Victoria Bynum<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History<br \/>\n<em>Texas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s <em>New York Times<\/em>, opinion editor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesMBlow\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Blow<\/a> delivers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47996\" target=\"_blank\">harsh critique<\/a> of the movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_State_of_Jones_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Free State of Jones<\/em><\/a>, arguing that its treatment of slavery in general and the rape of slave women in particular amounts to a \u201cgenteel treatment\u201d of the institution. Blow then turns to my book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=3767\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Free State of Jones: Mississippi\u2019s Longest Civil War<\/em><\/a>, and accuses me of using \u201cgrossly inappropriate descriptors\u201d to characterize what in reality was rape. To demonstrate, he quotes the following passage from my book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through encounters with women such as Rachel, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_Knight\" target=\"_blank\">Newt<\/a> knew that white men regularly crossed the color line despite laws and social taboos that forbade interracial liaisons and marriages. Rachel, light-skinned and physically attractive, was the sort of slave after whom many white men lusted. The fact that she had a white-skinned daughter announced to interested men that she had already been \u201cinitiated\u201d into the world of interracial relations. (page 86)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With great indignation, Blow then exclaims, \u201cEncounters? Liaisons? Initiated? Sexual relations? As long as she was a slave this was rape! Always. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I responded in the comments section of his op ed with the following:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/27\/charles-blow-blows-his-horn-in-the-new-york-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blow blows his horn in the New York Times Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-06-27 Victoria Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos In today\u2019s New York Times, opinion editor Charles Blow delivers a harsh critique of the movie, Free State of Jones, arguing that its treatment of slavery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[15263,15262,2640,1457,1456,4374,13966,2317,2327,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-48003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-charles-blow","tag-charles-m-blow","tag-new-york-times","tag-newt-knight","tag-newton-knight","tag-rachel-knight","tag-renegade-south","tag-renegade-south-histories-of-unconventional-southerners","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003","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=48003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48004,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48003\/revisions\/48004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}