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The Concept of “Passing”…<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Another View Radio Show<\/a>
\nWHRV 89.5 FM<\/a>
\nNorfolk, Virginia
\n2017-10-07<\/p>\n

Barbara Hamm Lee<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Producer and Host<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It’s a phenomenon unique to communities of color – those with very light skin “passing” for white<\/a>, particularly for African Americans, during the Jim Crow<\/a> era. On the next Another View<\/em> we’ll talk with Donna Drew Sawyer<\/a>, author of Provenance: A Novel<\/em><\/a>, about what happens in the life of a fictional character who passes for white; and historian Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander<\/a> who shares the history of this practice.<\/p>\n

Download the interview (01:00:00) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a phenomenon unique to communities of color – those with very light skin “passing” for white, particularly for African Americans, during the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[27830,27832,27831,27533,27829,27828],"class_list":["post-55367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-another-view-radio-show","tag-barbara-hamm-lee","tag-cassandra-newby-alexander","tag-donna-drew-sawyer","tag-whrv","tag-whrv-89-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55367","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=55367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55369,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55367\/revisions\/55369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}