{"id":63607,"date":"2022-03-30T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63607"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:59:15","slug":"stateside-podcast-passing-the-story-of-elsie-roxborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63607","title":{"rendered":"Stateside Podcast: &#8220;Passing:&#8221; The Story of Elsie Roxborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/podcast\/stateside\/2022-03-24\/stateside-podcast-passing-the-story-of-elsie-roxborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Stateside Podcast: &#8220;Passing:&#8221; The Story of Elsie Roxborough<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/podcast\/stateside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stateside<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan Radio<\/a>\n2022-03-24\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/podcast\/stateside\/2022-03-24\/stateside-podcast-passing-the-story-of-elsie-roxborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 50%; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/2e2dc96\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1770x2298+0+0\/resize\/1760x2286!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3f%2Ffa%2F73ec03cb4bdbb8c7129862ca68e1%2Fbhl-hs16683-full-1770-2298-0-native.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; width: 50%; display: block;\"><em>University Of Michigan Alumni Association\/Bentley Historical Library\n<\/em>\nWriter and reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/historylivesdet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Coleman<\/a> tells the story of Detroiter <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elsie_Roxborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elsie Roxborough<\/a>, who was born into a wealthy, Black family in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit<\/a>. But when she died in 1939, her death certificate listed her as white.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/stateside\/passing-the-story-of-elsie-roxborough\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\nIn 1914, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elsie_Roxborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elsie Roxborough<\/a> was born into a wealthy, Black family in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit<\/a>. But when she died in 1939, her death certificate listed her as white. Her life was rich, curious and at times, troubled, all while attempting a sort of high-wire-act of living multiple lives, between cities and names and races. Today, we talk about her life, death, and everything in between.\n\nListen to the story (00:19:36) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/podcast\/stateside\/2022-03-24\/stateside-podcast-passing-the-story-of-elsie-roxborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. Download the story <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.omny.fm\/d\/clips\/09bdf4bb-81f7-42fc-8ba4-aad90128d5d3\/64ee7c9d-0eef-4609-9130-ac45012a3dce\/567eb3f4-4338-4b31-9544-ae620163bb70\/audio.mp3?requestSource=Widget&amp;utm_source=Embed&amp;download=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.\n\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer and reporter Ken Coleman tells the story of Detroiter Elsie Roxborough, who was born into a wealthy, Black family in Detroit. But when she died in 1939, her death certificate listed her as white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,1245,459,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[5965,17448,33369,5754,33368,2711,596,33367],"class_list":["post-63607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-detroit","tag-elsie-roxborough","tag-ken-coleman","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-radio","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-stateside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63607","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=63607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63611,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63607\/revisions\/63611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}