A Chosen Exile : : A History of Racial Passing in American Life /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Hobbs, Allyson,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.) :; 26 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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