{"id":56118,"date":"2018-05-30T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56118"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:37:22","slug":"adventures-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56118","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adventures in Black and White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2Leaf Press<\/a>
\n2018-05-28 (originally published in 1960)
\n324
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-940939-77-3
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-940939-89-6<\/p>\n

Philippa Duke Schuyler<\/a> (1931-1967)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited and with a critical introduction by:<\/p>\n

Tara Betts<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer
\nUniversity of Illinois, Chicago; Chicago State University<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Adventures in Black and White<\/em>, a memoir-travelogue, was first published by world-renown child prodigy<\/a> Philippa Duke Schuyler in 1960. In this first revised edition of Adventures in Black and White<\/em> since its initial publication, scholar Tara Betts provides a critical introduction to this updated volume, including minor edits, and annotations of the original text. Recognized as a prodigy at an early age, Schuyler was heralded as America\u2019s<\/a> first internationally-acclaimed mixed race celebrity. Her father, a conservative African American journalist<\/a>, and her mother, a white Texan heiress, dedicated Schuyler\u2019s development to the cause of integration with the claim that racial mixing could produce a superior hybrid human, a claim that Schuyler resisted, but would nonetheless hurl her into a destructive identity crisis that consumed her throughout her life. When the transition from child prodigy to concert pianist proved challenging in America, like many black performers before her, she went abroad during the 1950s for larger audiences. Schuyler\u2019s witnessing first-hand the dissemblage of European colonies in Africa<\/a> and the Middle East<\/a>, is the focus of Adventures in Black and White<\/em>. Luckily, this narrative connects the twenty-first century to right after the Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, and the prelude to the forthcoming Civil Rights Movement<\/a> at a time when interracial identity was just becoming part of a public conversation in America. As Schuyler begins to write about Africa<\/a>\u2014\u201dthe homeland of her ancestors\u201d\u2014readers can begin to understand how the young musician would eventually find her way as an author and a journalist, and the books that followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Adventures in Black and White,” a memoir-travelogue, was first published by world-renown child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler in 1960. In this first revised edition of “Adventures in Black and White” since its initial publication, scholar Tara Betts provides a critical introduction to this updated volume, including minor edits, and annotations of the original text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20,25],"tags":[17071,1754,1755,24107],"class_list":["post-56118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","category-women","tag-2leaf-press","tag-philippa-duke-schuyler","tag-philippa-schuyler","tag-tara-betts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56118","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=56118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56123,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56118\/revisions\/56123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}