{"id":5864,"date":"2010-03-09T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:08:29","slug":"passing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the racial politics of the United States, racial passing refers to a person classified by society as a member of one racial group (most commonly Caucasian \/ Afro-American heritage) choosing to identify with a different group (usually white) by appearance. The term was used especially in the US to describe a person of mixed-race heritage assimilating to the white majority&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia contributors, &#8220;Passing (racial identity),&#8221; <em>Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Passing_(racial_identity)&amp;oldid=348052376\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Passing_(racial_identity)&amp;oldid=348052376<\/a> (accessed March 9, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the racial politics of the United States, racial passing refers to a person classified by society as a member of one racial group (most commonly Caucasian \/ Afro-American heritage) choosing to identify with a different group (usually white) by appearance. The term was used especially in the US to describe a person of mixed-race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6462],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-passing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","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=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}