{"id":63900,"date":"2022-05-21T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63900"},"modified":"2022-05-21T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T22:25:31","slug":"the-importance-of-being-turbaned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63900","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Being Turbaned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41152229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Importance of Being Turbaned<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/journal\/antiochreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Antioch Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/i40051089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 2011<\/a><br \/>\npages 208-221<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulkrameronline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Paul A. Kramer<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41152229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulkrameronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/routte-writing-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This narrative piece, selected by The Best American Essays 2012 as a \u201cnotable essay,\u201d tells the story of Rev. Jesse Routt\u00e9, an African American Lutheran minister in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> who, in response to racist abuse during a 1943 trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobile%2C_Alabama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mobile, Alabama<\/a>, returned four years later disguised as a turbaned, Swedish-accented \u201cforeigner.\u201d When he reported positive treatment, it flaunted contradictions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow\u2019s<\/a> racial definitions.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulkrameronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/turbaned-antioch-review-1-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Importance of Being Turbaned The Antioch Review Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 2011 pages 208-221 Paul A. Kramer, Associate Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee This narrative piece, selected by The Best American Essays 2012 as a \u201cnotable essay,\u201d tells the story of Rev. Jesse Routt\u00e9, an African American Lutheran minister in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6462,820,20],"tags":[1199,33553,33534,33556,33555,33554,2711,596,33535,33551,33552],"class_list":["post-63900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-alabama","tag-antioch-review","tag-jesse-routte","tag-jesse-w-routte","tag-jesse-wayman-routte","tag-mobile","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-paul-a-kramer","tag-paul-kramer","tag-the-antioch-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63900","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=63900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63901,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63900\/revisions\/63901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}