A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Book by 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... Google Books
Originally published: October 13, 2014
Author: Allyson Hobbs
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Mar 7, 2016 · This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a ...
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This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed ...
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It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presented ...
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Posted: Feb 18, 2016
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3A Chosen Exile historicizes the practice of racial passing in the United States, by outlining, from the period of slavery to the early 1970s, how fair-skinned ...
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May 23, 2017 · Hobbs traces a dialectic pattern of racial pride and misery from the times of slavery until the second half of the twentieth century that, ...
Nov 21, 2014 · A cultural history of passing examines individual stories and questions the meaning of racial identity.
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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.
Duration: 12:51
Posted: May 30, 2014
Posted: May 30, 2014
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