A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life
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A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life
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The work A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life
- Title remainder
- a history of racial passing in American life
- Statement of responsibility
- Allyson Hobbs
- Subject
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- Exiles
- Exiles -- United States -- History
- History
- Passing (Identity)
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Racially mixed people
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- History
- United States
- United States -- Race relations | History
- Race relations
- African Americans -- Race identity | History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It was a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one's own. Hobbs explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It is also a tale of grief, loneliness, and isolation that often accompanied the rewards
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- DLC
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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