{"id":58034,"date":"2019-05-12T01:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58034"},"modified":"2019-05-12T01:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:57:06","slug":"how-fears-of-passing-changed-the-1930-united-states-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58034","title":{"rendered":"How Fears of &#8220;Passing&#8221; Changed the 1930 United States Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f3mAOtzznWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How Fears of &#8220;Passing&#8221; Changed the 1930 United States Census<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCS2UFf1tL09jAQMVkA3v7iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History with Gabby Womack<\/a><br \/>\n2019-05-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gabby_womack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gabrielle C. Womack<\/strong>,<\/a> Reference\/Access Associate<br \/>\nMcQuade Library<br \/>\n<em>Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f3mAOtzznWU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The presentation argues that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulattoes<\/a> became negroes in the 1930 census because white Americans feared that black people were secretly among them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing for white<\/a>. Furthermore, it argues that the census change did not end the practice of racial passing or diminish white Americans fascination with it and fear of this act.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f3mAOtzznWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presentation argues that mulattoes became negroes in the 1930 census because white Americans feared that black people were secretly among them, passing for white. Furthermore, it argues that the census change did not end the practice of racial passing or diminish white Americans fascination with it and fear of this act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,459,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[29758,29757,29759,29756],"class_list":["post-58034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-gabby-womack","tag-gabrielle-c-womack","tag-gabrielle-womack","tag-history-with-gabby-womack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034","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=58034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58035,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58034\/revisions\/58035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}