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


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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 le

Author: Allyson Hobbs
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03/07/2016
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780674659926
ISBN10: 0674659929
BISAC Categories:
- History | African American & Black
- Social Science | Discrimination
- History | United States | 19th Century