{"id":60622,"date":"2021-03-08T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60622"},"modified":"2021-08-31T02:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:04:25","slug":"t-book-club-a-discussion-on-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60622","title":{"rendered":"T Book Club: A Discussion on \u201cPassing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/admin\/live-events.html?liveEventId=kJ0BK#event-kJ0BK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>T Book Club: A Discussion on \u201cPassing\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/t-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>2021-03-10, 00:00Z<\/strong> (2021-03-09, 19:00 EST; 2021-03-09, 16:00 PST)<br \/>\n<em>This event begins at <strong>2021-03-09, 19:00 Eastern Standard Time<\/strong> for viewers in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North America<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/admin\/live-events.html?liveEventId=kJ0BK#event-kJ0BK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mwcm.nyt.com\/dam\/mkt_assets\/moco\/live_events\/Tbookclub_larsen_size2_resized.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Join T\u2019s book club, which focuses on classic works of American literature, for a conversation on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nella Larsen&#8217;s<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passing<\/a>\u201d led by the novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/britbennett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brit Bennett<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The third title selected for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/t-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>T Magazine&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> book club, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nella Larsen&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passing<\/a>&#8221; (1929) tells the story of two old friends, both Black women, who reunite in 1920s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harlem<\/a>, despite the fact that one of them is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">living as a white person<\/a>. Critically acclaimed at the time of its publication, the novel captures the social anxieties that plagued <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America<\/a> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Migration_(African_American)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great Migration<\/a> and remains a resonant portrait of a fractured nation.<\/p>\n<p>On March 9, watch a virtual discussion of the book, featuring the novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/britbennett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brit Bennett<\/a> in conversation with T features director Thessaly La Force, that will address questions from readers. And, in the weeks leading up to the event, look for articles on &#8220;Passing&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/t-magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tmagazine.com<\/a>. We hope you&#8217;ll read along \u2014 and R.S.V.P. above.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/admin\/live-events.html?liveEventId=kJ0BK#event-kJ0BK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join T\u2019s book club, which focuses on classic works of American literature, for a conversation on Nella Larsen&#8217;s \u201cPassing\u201d led by the novelist Brit Bennett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1196,13,6462,20,842,25],"tags":[30881,87,2640,31350],"class_list":["post-60622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-criticism","category-liveevents","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-brit-bennett","tag-nella-larsen","tag-new-york-times","tag-t-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622","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=60622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61383,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60622\/revisions\/61383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}