A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life

A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life / Allyson Hobbs.

[Description]Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women...

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Main Author: Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity > History.
Passing (Identity) > United States > History.
Racially mixed people > United States > History.
Exiles > United States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans > Race identity
Exiles
Passing (Identity)
Race relations
Racially mixed people
Ethnische Identität
Entfremdung
Identitätspolitik
Noirs américains > Identité collective > Histoire.
Métis > États-Unis > Histoire.
Relations interethniques.
Afro-amerikaner > historia.
Rasrelationer > historia.
United States > Race relations > History.
United States
USA
États-Unis > Relations interethniques > Histoire.
History
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