{"id":55165,"date":"2017-11-15T17:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55165"},"modified":"2017-11-16T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:51:09","slug":"zendaya-to-produce-star-in-thriller-on-anita-hemmings-first-black-woman-vassar-grad-passing-as-white-to-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55165","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya to produce, star in thriller on Anita Hemmings, first black woman Vassar grad, passing as white to attend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zendaya to produce, star in thriller on Anita Hemmings, first black woman Vassar grad, passing as white to attend<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Shadow And Act<\/a>
\n2017-11-14<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nZendaya<\/a> (left) and Anita Hemmings<\/a> (right).<\/small><\/p>\n

Zendaya<\/a> has booked what Deadline<\/em> calls<\/a> a hot pitch package on the street right now.<\/p>\n

The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe<\/a> novel, The Gilded Years<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The novel, a psychological thriller<\/a>, “built around the true story of Anita Hemmings<\/a>, a light-skinned African American woman. She is the daughter of a janitor, who passed as white<\/a> so she could attend Vassar<\/a> at the turn of the century.” She is treated as a wealthy and educated white woman and sparks a romance with a rich Harvard<\/a> student.<\/p>\n

Zendaya will play Hemmings…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now. The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, “The Gilded Years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8,6462,20],"tags":[22218,27644,22219,27646,27645,27647,11481,27225,27648],"class_list":["post-55165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-anita-hemmings","tag-deadline","tag-karin-tanabe","tag-lauren-neustadter","tag-monica-beletsky","tag-reese-witherspoon","tag-shadow-and-act","tag-zendaya","tag-zendaya-maree-stoermer-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55165","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=55165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55178,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55165\/revisions\/55178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}