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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Hardcover - 2014
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- Title A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
- Author Allyson Hobbs
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 394
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 2014-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780674368101 / 067436810X
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.2 in (21.84 x 14.73 x 3.05 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Topical: Black History
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
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- Choice, 03/01/2015, Page 1216
- Library Journal, 11/01/2014, Page 98
- New York Times Book Review, 11/23/2014, Page 26
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First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Materials from National Archives event at which author signed book included. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.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. It also tells a tale of loss.As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal,… Read More
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