A Chosen Exile
a history of racial passing in American life
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Word Count
95,500 words, Guess
Page Count
382 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechosenexilehisto0000hobb
- ISBN-10067436810X
- ISBN-139780674368101
- OCLC Control Number875999888
- OCLC Control Number2014008725
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780674368101
- Open LibraryOL25724280M
Classifications
- LCCE185.625 .H63 2014
- LCCE185.625 .H63 2014eb
- LCCE185.625.H63 2014
Description
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. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. 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. Hobbs explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It is also a tale of grief, loneliness, and isolation that often accompanied the rewards. - Publisher.
Description
t was a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. 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. Hobbs explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It is also a tale of grief, loneliness, and isolation that often accompanied the rewards.
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- A Chosen Exile: a history of racial passing in American life
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