{"id":60094,"date":"2020-08-28T23:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60094"},"modified":"2020-08-28T23:55:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:55:22","slug":"blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60094","title":{"rendered":"BLM resources: Nella Larson\u2019s \u2018Passing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>BLM resources: Nella Larson\u2019s \u2018Passing\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palatinate: Durham&#8217;s Independent Student Newspaper Since 1948<\/a><br \/>\nDurham, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2020-07-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna De Vivo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploadedImages\/Four_African_American_women_seated_on_steps_of_building_at_Atlanta_University_Georgia_LOC_4483938173-938x535.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_E._Askew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas E. Askew<\/a> via <em>U.S. Library of Congress<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>\u2018She was caught between two allegiances, different, yet the same. Herself. Her race. Race! The thing that bound and suffocated her.\u2019 Written in 1929 but still pertinent to this day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nella Larsen\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Passing<\/em><\/a> centres around two biracial women, and explores racial identity, racism, and white privilege \u2013significant concerns which have been propelled after the surge of global support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lives_Matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Racial passing<\/a> is when one member of a racial group is accepted or passes as another member of a different racial category, which both protagonists of this novella undergo. The idea of racial passing gained prominence in post-Civil War America, where previously enslaved African Americans could construct a new identity and thereby evade legal and cultural oppression based on race. In essence, passing could become a tool to create a new white identity.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Passing<\/em>, after a chance encounter in the segregated Drayton Hotel in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago<\/a>, Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, the two protagonists, reunite after twelve years. Both women grew up together. Both women are of African American and white heritage, yet both women pass as white. But there is one significant difference: whilst Irene embraces her racial identity and passes only when she feels necessary, Clare assimilates into a white identity and marries John Bellew, her rich but racist husband&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palatinate.org.uk\/blm-resources-nella-larsons-passing\/#comment-1646679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written in 1929 but still pertinent to this day, Nella Larsen\u2019s Passing centres around two biracial women, and explores racial identity, racism, and white privilege \u2013significant concerns which have been propelled after the surge of global support for the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,6462,20],"tags":[31097,87,31099,31098],"class_list":["post-60094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-anna-de-vivo","tag-nella-larsen","tag-palatinate","tag-palatinate-durhams-independent-student-newspaper-since-1948"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60094","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=60094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60097,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60094\/revisions\/60097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}