{"id":54643,"date":"2017-07-26T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54643"},"modified":"2017-07-26T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:50:28","slug":"passing-for-white-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54643","title":{"rendered":"Passing for White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barringtonstoke.co.uk\/books\/passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Passing for White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barringtonstoke.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barrington Stoke<\/a><br \/>\n2017-05-11<br \/>\n112 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-78112-681-3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanyalandman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tanya Landman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barringtonstoke.co.uk\/books\/passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barringtonstoke.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9781781126813-768x1170.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>She must pose as a master to make herself free.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 1848 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep South of America<\/a>. Rosa is a slave but her owner is also her father and her fair skin means she can \u2018pass for white\u2019. With the help of Benjamin, her husband, she disguises herself as a young white man \u2013 and\u00a0Benjamin\u2019s master. In this guise, the two of them must make their way out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South<\/a>,\u00a0avoiding those they have encountered before and holding their nerve over a thousand miles to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the amazing true story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_and_William_Craft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen and William Craft<\/a>, this is a powerful tale of danger, injustice and unimaginable courage.<\/p>\n<p>Information for Adults:\u00a0This book has a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dyslexia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dyslexia<\/a>-friendly layout, typeface and paperstock so that even more readers can enjoy it. It has been edited to a reading age of 8.<\/p>\n<p>It features a removable \u2018super-readable\u2019 sticker.<\/p>\n<p>Read the first chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/barringtonstoke\/docs\/passing_for_white_chapter_samples\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She must pose as a master to make herself free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,15,6462,6940,20],"tags":[27362,27360,88,27361,1052],"class_list":["post-54643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-barrington-stoke","tag-ellen-and-william-craft","tag-ellen-craft","tag-tanya-landman","tag-william-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54643","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=54643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54646,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54643\/revisions\/54646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}