{"id":63665,"date":"2022-04-06T01:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T01:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63665"},"modified":"2022-04-06T01:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T01:35:26","slug":"stranger-and-alone-the-story-of-a-man-who-betrayed-his-own-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63665","title":{"rendered":"Stranger and Alone: The Story of a Man Who Betrayed His Own People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Stranger and Alone: The Story of a Man Who Betrayed His Own People<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harcourt, Brace and Company<br \/>\n1951<br \/>\n308 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Saunders_Redding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>J. Saunders Redding<\/strong><\/a> (1906\u20131988)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/StrangerAndAlone.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Stranger and Alone<\/em> dramatizes the psychological and moral costs of denying one&#8217;s racial identity and allowing one&#8217;s \u201cwhite face\u201d to predominate. Striving for individual success through rejection of one&#8217;s people, the novel implies, amounts to a betrayal of oneself, as well as a futile striving against history, \u201cthe time on the clock of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stranger and Alone&#8221; dramatizes the psychological and moral costs of denying one&#8217;s racial identity and allowing one&#8217;s \u201cwhite face\u201d to predominate. Striving for individual success through rejection of one&#8217;s people, the novel implies, amounts to a betrayal of oneself, as well as a futile striving against history, \u201cthe time on the clock of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[33415,33414],"class_list":["post-63665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-j-saunders-redding","tag-jay-saunders-redding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63665","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=63665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63667,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63665\/revisions\/63667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}