{"id":62438,"date":"2021-11-29T22:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62438"},"modified":"2021-11-29T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:28:22","slug":"the-day-i-passed-for-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62438","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Passed for White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6116209\/passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Day I Passed for White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIME<\/a><br \/>\n2021-11-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellymcwilliamsauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kelly McWilliams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6116209\/passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.time.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Passing_FINAL.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=70\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Illustration By Elizabeth Montero for TIME<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirror Girls<\/a><em>, a novel about sisterhood and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a light-skinned Black woman, I have purposefully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed for white<\/a> only once in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not to say I haven\u2019t passed unintentionally many times\u2014especially as a young adult, away from home for the first time. When white folks around me vented their subterranean racism (\u201cBlack kids only get into college because of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affirmative_action_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affirmative action<\/a>, you know\u201d), I liked to consider myself a warrior\u2014a masked superspy. I always pushed back against this covert racism\u2014the off-color jokes, the insider whispers. (\u201cI would never date a Black man, they\u2019re all on drugs.\u201d \u201cMy roommate\u2019s hair smells, you know, like <em>them<\/em>.\u201d) Importantly, I always revealed my own racial identity as quickly as possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6116209\/passing-for-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming &#8220;Mirror Girls,&#8221; a novel about sisterhood and passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,6462,20],"tags":[32550,19784,3521],"class_list":["post-62438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-kelly-mcwilliams","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438","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=62438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62441,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62438\/revisions\/62441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}