{"id":55112,"date":"2017-11-12T04:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55112"},"modified":"2018-05-16T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T23:12:09","slug":"i-have-to-tell-you-if-i-hadnt-found-that-1900-census-record-and-appeared-on-genealogy-roadshow-i-wouldve-lived-my-life-blissfully-ignorant-of-my-black-heritage-and-the-family-my-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55112","title":{"rendered":"I have to tell you, if I hadn\u2019t found that 1900 census record and appeared on Genealogy Roadshow, I would\u2019ve lived my life blissfully ignorant of my black heritage and the family my mother left behind in New Orleans. To me, that would have been a tragic loss.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI would like to believe that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a>\u201d is an archaic notion,&#8221; she <a href=\"http:\/\/gaillukasik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Gail Lukasik]<\/a> said. &#8220;I really would like to believe that, because we no longer have laws like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one drop rule<\/a>. But I suspect that in America\u2019s racist culture, mixed race people who can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass for white<\/a> must still wrestle with that choice. I have to tell you, if I hadn\u2019t found that 1900 census record and appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genealogy_Roadshow_(U.S._TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Genealogy Roadshow<\/em><\/a>, I would\u2019ve lived my life blissfully ignorant of my black heritage and the family my mother left behind in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans<\/a>. To me, that would have been a tragic loss.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt Christy, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secret heritage<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Herald-Argus<\/em>, October 26, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldargus.com\/news\/secret-heritage\/article_09c33d4a-b024-5a13-96cf-07394e1200d2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.heraldargus.com\/news\/secret-heritage\/article_09c33d4a-b024-5a13-96cf-07394e1200d2.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI would like to believe that \u201cpassing\u201d is an archaic notion,&#8221; she [Gail Lukasik] said. &#8220;I really would like to believe that, because we no longer have laws like the one drop rule. But I suspect that in America\u2019s racist culture, mixed race people who can pass for white must still wrestle with that choice. [&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":[25614,27600,27598,27599],"class_list":["post-55112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-gail-lukasik","tag-herald-argus","tag-matt-christy","tag-the-herald-argus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55112","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=55112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55114,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55112\/revisions\/55114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}