A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs

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

Allyson Hobbs

382 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 t...

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