{"id":63652,"date":"2022-04-05T00:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T00:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63652"},"modified":"2022-04-05T00:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T00:50:39","slug":"gregory-howard-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63652","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Howard Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer Gregory Howard Williams’ “Life on the Color Line”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Fresh Air with Terry Gross<\/a>
\nWHYY FM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
\n1995-02-21<\/p>\n

Terry Gross<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Williams<\/a> spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia<\/a>, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana<\/a>, where the boys learned that they were half black. Williams’ new memoir “Life on the Color Line<\/a>” is about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher’s Weekly<\/em> calls it “(an) affecting and absorbing story.”<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview (00:23:10) here<\/a>. Download the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Williams spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,395,13743,8,6462,20,693],"tags":[7539,1365,5456,33402,15060,12553],"class_list":["post-63652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-gregory-h-williams","tag-gregory-howard-williams","tag-indiana","tag-muncie","tag-terry-gross","tag-whyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652","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=63652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63653,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652\/revisions\/63653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}