A Chosen Exile: A History Of Racial Passing In American Life

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 living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions.

• | Author: Allyson Hobbs
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0674659929
• | ISBN-13: 9780674659926