{"id":50234,"date":"2016-11-26T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50234"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T00:40:12","slug":"when-i-learned-more-about-his-family-i-understood-a-bit-more-not-just-the-pressures-he-must-have-felt-in-passing-for-white-but-also-the-strange-unsettling-feeling-it-must-have-been-to-identify-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50234","title":{"rendered":"When I learned more about his family, I understood a bit more not just the pressures he must have felt in passing for white, but also the strange, unsettling feeling it must have been to identify with a group of people historically known as Free People of Color, or Mulatto, or Creoles."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltisserandauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Tisserand<\/strong><\/a>: When I learned more about his family, I understood a bit more not just the pressures he [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Herriman\" target=\"_blank\">George Herriman<\/a>] must have felt in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing for white<\/a>, but also the strange, unsettling feeling it must have been to identify with a group of people historically known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_people_of_color\" target=\"_blank\">Free People of Color<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">Mulatto<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creole_peoples#Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Creoles<\/a>\u2026 a group that constantly was seeing its very identity being changed legally and linguistically and culturally. And then for Herriman to work in a genre so deeply influenced by the masks of minstrelsy! When I read a classic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krazy_Kat\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Krazy Kat<\/em><\/a> line such as \u201clenguage is that we may mis-unda-stend each udda,\u201d it seems pretty clear that Herriman had a deep understanding of what we now consider to be modern notions of the slipperiness of language and a sort of permeability of identity&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Tumey,\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50209\" target=\"_blank\">A \u201cKonversation\u201d with George Herriman\u2019s Biographer, Michael Tisserand (Part One)<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Comics Journal<\/em>, November 14, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/a-konversation-with-george-herrimans-biographer-michael-tisserand-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/a-konversation-with-george-herrimans-biographer-michael-tisserand-part-one\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tisserand: When I learned more about his family, I understood a bit more not just the pressures he [George Herriman] must have felt in passing for white, but also the strange, unsettling feeling it must have been to identify with a group of people historically known as Free People of Color, or Mulatto, or [&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":[25526,9929,9930,25524,25527,25525],"class_list":["post-50234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-comics-journal","tag-george-herriman","tag-krazy-kat","tag-michael-tisserand","tag-paul-tumey","tag-the-comics-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234","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=50234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50235,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234\/revisions\/50235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}