{"id":60202,"date":"2020-09-19T20:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T20:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60202"},"modified":"2020-09-19T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T20:07:09","slug":"passing-for-white-to-escape-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60202","title":{"rendered":"Passing for White to Escape Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/passing-for-white-to-escape-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Passing for White to Escape Slavery<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JSTOR Daily: where news meets its scholarly match<\/a><br \/>\n2020-09-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matthewwills.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Matthew Wills<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/passing-for-white-to-escape-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the_history_of_passing_is_rooted_in_the_violence_of_slavery_1050x700.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_and_William_Craft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellen and William Craft<\/a> <em>via Flickr\/ Flickr<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passing for white<\/a> was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Racial passing<\/a> is in the news with the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/07\/opinions\/jessica-krug-black-morales\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jessica Krug<\/a>, a white academic who claimed several Black identities throughout her professional career. The phenomenon of white people putting on different backgrounds is widespread\u2014for example, as shown in well-documented <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/playing-sports-and-playing-indian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cases of white people claiming Native American ancestry<\/a>. But passing for Black seems, well, different.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for that may be that the idea of passing has historically been linked to Black people passing for white. Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/english.uconn.edu\/person\/martha-cutter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martha J. Cutter<\/a>, digging into \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the early history of racial passing<\/a>,\u201d argues that it originated in advertisements offering rewards for captured runaway slaves starting in the mid-eighteenth century, decades before the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe archive suggests that while laws from state to state and in different time periods varied, the idea of an enslaved individual from a black family heritage deliberately passing for white was frequently configured as duplicitous and even incendiary,\u201d she writes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/passing-for-white-to-escape-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing for white was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6462,6940,20],"tags":[88,27481,27480,31172,2242,28327,19065,1052],"class_list":["post-60202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-ellen-craft","tag-jstor","tag-jstor-daily","tag-jstor-daily-where-news-meets-its-scholarly-match","tag-martha-j-cutter","tag-matthew-wills","tag-william-and-ellen-craft","tag-william-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202","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=60202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60204,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60202\/revisions\/60204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}