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

by Allyson Hobbs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674659929
• ISBN13: 9780674659926
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"