{"id":49783,"date":"2016-11-04T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49783"},"modified":"2017-03-14T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T22:02:55","slug":"passing-strange-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49783","title":{"rendered":"Passing Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecommononline.org\/features\/passing-strange\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Passing Strange<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecommononline.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Common<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralpheubanks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>W. Ralph Eubanks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All thinking Southerners, at some point, find their minds at war with their hearts, a battle that often ends with the heart claiming victory. It is this triumph of the heart that landed me, a black expatriate Mississippian, back in my home state again. Yet returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a> after nearly forty years, albeit temporarily, as a visiting professor, has left me torn somewhere between acceptance and separateness. In some ways, the longer I am in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">South<\/a>, the less I try to maintain my distance from the place.<\/p>\n<p>One way my divide from the South has been bridged is in the way I speak when I am here. When I left Mississippi I scrubbed away any outward sign that would mark me as a native son, even succeeding at losing my accent as well as the elongated vowels of my youth. But these days a decided twang has begun to creep into my voice. And rather than correcting my linguistic lapses, I\u2019m reclaiming this part of my Southern background.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one thing I have had difficulty accepting: people thinking I am a white man&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecommononline.org\/features\/passing-strange\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All thinking Southerners, at some point, find their minds at war with their hearts, a battle that often ends with the heart claiming victory. It is this triumph of the heart that landed me, a black expatriate Mississippian, back in my home state again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,1459,6462,20],"tags":[25361,679],"class_list":["post-49783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-the-common","tag-w-ralph-eubanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49783","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=49783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52479,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49783\/revisions\/52479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}