{"id":57267,"date":"2019-01-09T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57267"},"modified":"2019-01-10T00:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:22:53","slug":"black-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57267","title":{"rendered":"BLACK FOR A DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/black-for-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>BLACK FOR A DAY<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Books, Beats, &amp; Beyond<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/about-the-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taj Salaam<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/black-for-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Black-for-a-Day_-Cover-Canva-1024x538.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Black-for-a-Day_-Cover-Canva-1024x538.png 1024w, http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Black-for-a-Day_-Cover-Canva-300x158.png 300w, http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Black-for-a-Day_-Cover-Canva-768x403.png 768w, http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Black-for-a-Day_-Cover-Canva-610x320.png 610w, http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Black-for-a-Day_-Cover-Canva.png 1200w\" alt=\"Black for a Day_ Cover Canva\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m talking with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alishagaines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alisha Gaines<\/a>, about her book titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black for A Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people participating in blackface and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minstrel_show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minstrelsy<\/a>. At the end of their experiments in so-called \u201cblackness,\u201d Alisha Gaines argues, these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>By examining this history of modern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial impersonation<\/a>, Alisha Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.<\/p>\n<p>Alisha Gaines is assistant professor of English at Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (01:08:53) <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbeatsandbeyond.com\/black-for-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Alisha Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[4703,29245,29246],"class_list":["post-57267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alisha-gaines","tag-books-beats-beyond","tag-taj-salaam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267","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=57267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57273,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267\/revisions\/57273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}