Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in American Life

Name: Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in American Life
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ISBN: 9780674368101

ISBN-10: 067436810X

ISBN-13: 9780674368101

Edition: 2014

Authors: Allyson Hobbs

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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss.As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/3/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.85" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.