A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674659926ISBN-10:674659929UPC:9780674659926Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Discrimination, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCKWDHC9PH
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674659926ISBN-10:674659929UPC:9780674659926Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Discrimination, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCKWDHC9PH
Hobbs, Allyson: - Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.
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