{"id":58604,"date":"2019-07-29T02:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T02:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58604"},"modified":"2019-07-29T02:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T02:05:55","slug":"passing-a-family-in-black-white-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58604","title":{"rendered":"Passing: A Family in Black &#038; White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/passing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Passing: A Family in Black &amp; White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topic Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/journeys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issue Number 25, Journeys (July 2019)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinrcloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Robin Cloud<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/passing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/topic.imgix.net\/usq\/083287ca-9330-4840-9047-3e16b8f75b0b\/8cdb1497-157a-4fdd-8540-e41bdfca3105.jpeg?auto=compress,format&amp;cs=srgb&amp;h=630&amp;w=1200\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, African American comedian and filmmaker Robin Cloud had heard tales about the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nebraska<\/a> cousins,\u201d a branch of her family that moved away from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Coast_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Coast<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass for white<\/a> in the rural <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midwestern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwest<\/a>. In this six-part series, Cloud attempts to find and understand the motives of the relatives who left everything and everyone else behind, and documents how their progeny grapple with the revelation that they aren\u2019t who they thought they were.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/passing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this six-part series, Cloud attempts to find and understand the motives of the relatives who left everything and everyone else behind, and documents how their progeny grapple with the revelation that they aren\u2019t who they thought they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6462,20,842],"tags":[30006,30078],"class_list":["post-58604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-robin-cloud","tag-topic-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604","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=58604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58605,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58604\/revisions\/58605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}