{"id":61899,"date":"2021-10-21T00:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T00:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61899"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:29:42","slug":"halls-film-has-cracked-open-a-public-conversation-about-colorism-privilege-and-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61899","title":{"rendered":"Hall\u2019s film has cracked open a public conversation about colorism, privilege and secrets."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Rebecca] Hall\u2019s<\/a> film [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Passing<\/em><\/a>] has cracked open a public conversation about colorism, privilege and secrets. On Twitter, people are sharing stories and black-and-white photographs of a grandmother\u2019s cousins who moved out of state, great-aunts who sneaked back to see their family in secret, relatives who lost their jobs when co-workers informed management about their identities: a public airing of what in Hall\u2019s family was once closely held. Recently one of her mother\u2019s sisters reached out: She said that they never really had language to understand the hidden context that shaped their family, and she thanked her for giving it to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alexandra Kleeman, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Secret Toll of Racial Ambiguity<\/a>,\u201d<em>&nbsp;The New York Times Magazine<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/20\/magazine\/rebecca-hall-passing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/20\/magazine\/rebecca-hall-passing.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Rebecca] Hall\u2019s film [Passing] has cracked open a public conversation about colorism, privilege and secrets. On Twitter, people are sharing stories and black-and-white photographs of a grandmother\u2019s cousins who moved out of state, great-aunts who sneaked back to see their family in secret, relatives who lost their jobs when co-workers informed management about their identities: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32144,2640,8894,28879,2327,13109],"class_list":["post-61899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-alexandra-kleeman","tag-new-york-times","tag-new-york-times-magazine","tag-rebecca-hall","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61899","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=61899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63641,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61899\/revisions\/63641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}