{"id":59852,"date":"2020-06-30T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59852"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:45:19","slug":"brit-bennett-on-her-new-novel-the-vanishing-half-and-the-history-of-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59852","title":{"rendered":"Brit Bennett on her New Novel &#8216;The Vanishing Half&#8221; and the History of Racial Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/brit-bennett-on-her-new-novel-vanishing-half-history\/id1157631148?i=1000478042047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Brit Bennett on her New Novel &#8216;The Vanishing Half&#8221; and the History of Racial Passing<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cbs-this-morning\/id1157631148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS This Morning<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/brit-bennett-on-her-new-novel-vanishing-half-history\/id1157631148?i=1000478042047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/is2-ssl.mzstatic.com\/image\/thumb\/Podcasts123\/v4\/3a\/1d\/53\/3a1d537e-ba25-e22a-6061-1bacee180a1f\/mza_15137012725761951774.jpeg\/1200x630wp.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best-selling author <a href=\"https:\/\/britbennett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brit Bennett<\/a> is following the success of her critically-acclaimed debut, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/534018\/the-mothers-by-brit-bennett\/9780399184529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mothers<\/a>,&#8221; with a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Vanishing Half<\/a>,&#8221; a novel exploring the American history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">racial passing<\/a>. She joins <em>CBS News&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Errol_Barnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Errol Barnett<\/a> to discuss how the story, which opens in 1968, is particularly timely today. Bennett also shares her reaction to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/07\/arts\/Jk-Rowling-controversy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.K. Rowling&#8217;s controversial statements on transgender women<\/a> and how the trending <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PublishingPaidMe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PublishingPaidMe<\/a> has uncovered inequities within the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the episode (00:26:00) <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/brit-bennett-on-her-new-novel-vanishing-half-history\/id1157631148?i=1000478042047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Download the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/9f1c8ac1-d940-448c-97b5-a2859ae173c2.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best-selling author Brit Bennett is following the success of her critically-acclaimed debut, &#8220;The Mothers,&#8221; with a &#8220;The Vanishing Half,&#8221; a novel exploring the American history of racial passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13743,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[30881,29497,19882,29496,30949,24577],"class_list":["post-59852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-brit-bennett","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-news","tag-cbs-this-morning","tag-errol-barnett","tag-j-k-rowling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852","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=59852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59853,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59852\/revisions\/59853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}