{"id":8417,"date":"2010-08-23T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2015-10-14T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:25:17","slug":"american-lives-the-strange-tale-of-clarence-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8417","title":{"rendered":"American Lives: The ‘Strange’ Tale Of Clarence King"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Lives: The ‘Strange’ Tale Of Clarence King<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

National Public Radio
\n2010-08-18<\/p>\n

Steve Inskeep<\/a><\/strong>, Host
\nMorning Edition<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nU.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library<\/small><\/p>\n

Ada Copeland, an African-American woman born in Georgia<\/a> just months before that state seceded from the Union, moved to New York City<\/a> in the mid-1880s. There, she met a man named James Todd. He was light-skinned, handsome, had a good job for an African-American man in that time \u2014 a Pullman porter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They hit it off, and eventually married. They had five children and a house in Brooklyn<\/a>. Their story would be unremarkable if not for one detail: Nothing James had told his future wife was true.<\/p>\n

“James Todd was really not black, he was not a Pullman porter, and he was not even James Todd,” author Martha Sandweiss<\/a> tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep. “He was in fact Clarence King<\/a>, a very well-educated white explorer who was truly a famous man in late 19th century America.”…<\/p>\n

…Sandweiss’ book, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line<\/em><\/a>, examines why King chose to live a double life \u2014 and how his experience reflects and represents how Americans, both past and present, have thought about race. In the aftermath of the Civil War<\/a>, particularly, the U.S. had to recast some of the ways it thought about questions of race and identity…<\/p>\n

Read and\/or listen to the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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