{"id":54888,"date":"2017-09-05T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54888"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:01:52","slug":"a-young-black-girl-tries-to-pass-for-white-in-1960s-rural-georgia-in-the-short-film-across-the-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54888","title":{"rendered":"A young black girl tries to pass for white in 1960s rural Georgia in the short film \u2018Across the Tracks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropunk.com\/2017\/08\/young-black-girl-tries-pass-white-1960s-rural-georgia-short-film-across-tracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A young black girl tries to pass for white in 1960s rural Georgia in the short film \u2018Across the Tracks\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/afropunk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afropunk<\/a><br \/>\n2017-08-30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eye Candy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/126526514?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Two African American sisters grow up in racially charged 1960s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a>, but one is born with fair skin. And when schools integrate in their small town, she decides to change her destiny\u2014by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing for white<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Set in modern day and 1960s rural <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acrossthetracksfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Across The Tracks<\/a>\u201d follows two black sisters\u2014one dark skinned, the other light skinned\u2014as they both navigate the desegregation of their school and make choices that will change them forever. Shot by director\/cinematographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5138288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Cooke<\/a> in the small town of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arlington,_Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arlington, GA<\/a>. and co-written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4951591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimberly James<\/a>, \u201cAcross the Tracks\u201d is a story so resonate with and relevant to the black experience even now you\u2019ll wonder why it hasn\u2019t been done sooner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/afropunk.com\/2017\/08\/young-black-girl-tries-pass-white-1960s-rural-georgia-short-film-across-tracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two African American sisters grow up in racially charged 1960s Georgia, but one is born with fair skin. And when schools integrate in their small town, she decides to change her destiny &#8211; by passing for white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,6462,20],"tags":[26219,27489,3192,27490,27492,27491],"class_list":["post-54888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-afropunk","tag-eye-candy","tag-georgia","tag-kimberly-james","tag-kimberly-y-james","tag-mike-cooke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54888","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=54888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54891,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54888\/revisions\/54891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}