{"id":49055,"date":"2016-09-11T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49055"},"modified":"2016-09-11T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T17:00:57","slug":"%ef%bb%bfpassing-is-both-a-social-and-political-act-a-form-of-revolt-against-slave-owners-and-slavery-outlawed-and-feared-by-segregationists-and-white-supremacists-yielding-a-breath-of-freedom-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49055","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffPassing is both a social and political act: a form of revolt against slave owners and slavery, outlawed and feared by segregationists and white supremacists, yielding a breath of freedom and yet systemically injurious to those still oppressed."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a> is both a social and political act: a form of revolt against slave owners and slavery, outlawed and feared by segregationists and white supremacists, yielding a breath of freedom and yet systemically injurious to those still oppressed. Because of this latter fact, it\u2019s hard for me to work through how to perceive it morally, how to weigh all of its effects. As Harvard Law School professor <a href=\"http:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/10470\/Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">Randall Kennedy<\/a> writes in his 2001 essay, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3514\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Passing<\/a>,\u201d passing, when a choice, \u201crequires that a person be self-consciously engaged in concealment.\u201d But it is not just a concealment of the self\u2014my grandmother erasing who she may have been at one time, keeping her skin powdered. It\u2019s a concealment of history\u2014a concealment and erasure of others: we have no photographs of my grandmother\u2019s parents, and none of their parents either\u2014not even a photo of her brother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ashlie Kauffman, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48985\" target=\"_blank\">Our Secret Family Legacy<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Rumpus<\/em>, August 31, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2016\/08\/our-secret-family-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2016\/08\/our-secret-family-legacy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing is both a social and political act: a form of revolt against slave owners and slavery, outlawed and feared by segregationists and white supremacists, yielding a breath of freedom and yet systemically injurious to those still oppressed. Because of this latter fact, it\u2019s hard for me to work through how to perceive it morally, [&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":[24939,724,14306],"class_list":["post-49055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ashlie-kauffman","tag-randall-kennedy","tag-the-rumpus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055","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=49055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49056,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055\/revisions\/49056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}