as much as i love the version of sooner we done with the trouble the words, that mahalia jackson sings, the crescendo the second version of and imitation of life. that moment didn't really happen much. it might have happened, passing just wasn't a phenomenon that had all that sturm und drang about it. when you think about it, the idea of passing itself presumed a regime of strict racial regulation that didn't exist basically after 1970. so from that perspective, all kinds of idiosyncratic reasons why to have an identity other than identity that they think they were assigned. passing as a socially distinctive phenomenon basically ended between 1970 and 1975. >> right, right. so, this important point you are making about the historical specificity of the jim crow era, use, in your last chapter you use the controversy over confederate monuments in a very interesting way to catch two big transitions, that is, one is represented by what the explicit message of those confederate monuments did to distort and whitewash the history of slavery in the civil war and its relationship to the civil w

jackson sings right in the crescendo of the second version of of of life. that that moment didn't really happen much. i mean it might have happened but in some cases, but that's not you know passing just wasn't a phenomenon that had all that snowman song about it and then when you think about it. um the idea of passing itself presumes a regime of strict racial regulation that that didn't exist basically after 1970 so so from that perspective. yeah. also, it's a individuals for all kinds of what all kinds of videos socratic reasons want to have an identity the other than the identity that they think they were assigned. but passing as a socially distinctive phenomenon basically ended between 1970 and 1975. right, right. so this this important point you're making about the historical specificity of the jim crow era you you use in your last chapter you use the controversial confederate monuments in a really interesting way to catch. like two big transitions, that is the one is represented by what the explicit message of those confederate ornaments did to distor