A Chosen Exile : : A History of Racial Passing in American Life / / Allyson Hobbs.
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 pass...
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Hobbs, Allyson, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Chosen Exile : A History of Racial Passing in American Life / Allyson Hobbs. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (350 p.) : 26 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: To Live a Life Elsewhere -- 1. White Is the Color of Freedom -- 2. Waiting on a White Man's Chance -- 3. Lost Kin -- 4. Searching for a New Soul in Harlem -- 5. Coming Home -- Epilogue: On Identity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one's birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one's own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied-and often outweighed-these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to "pass out" and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) African Americans Race identity History. Exiles United States History. Passing (Identity) United States History. Racially mixed people United States History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674368101 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735811 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735811 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674735811.jpg |
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