Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Allyson Hobbs
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Book Discussion on A Chosen Exile C-SPAN: Created by Cable Recorded on 2015-02-27 at: The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Washington, D.C. Allyson Hobbs talked about her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, in which she examines the lives of African Americans who chose to pass as white…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Live event at the National Archives Museum] The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Corner of Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2015-02-27, 12:00 EST (Local Time) Airs on C-SPAN 2, Sunday, 2015-03-08, 19:00 EDT. For more information, click here. Between…
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A History of Loss The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-02-09 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper,…
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The gains and losses of racial “code switching” KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco, California 2015-01-27 Hana Baba, News Reporter/Host On today’s episode of “Crosscurrents,” we are talking about identity. We have heard how people, whether intentionally or not, can “pass” as another race, just by the sound of their voice. Passing can also be a…
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The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed 2014-12-14 Robert Fikes Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University, San Diego, California Three Harlem Women, ca. 1925 In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no…
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Allyson Hobbs (Book) A Chosen Exile Joe Madison The Black Eagle SiriusXM Urban ViewAfrican-American Talk 2014-11-13 Joe Madison, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University
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‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs [Senna Review] The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-21 Danzy Senna A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life By Allyson Hobbs; Illustrated. 382 pp. Harvard University Press. $29.95. One of the best birthday presents anybody ever gave me was a “calling card” by the…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life – Allyson Hobbs Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-06, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-07, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Allyson Hobbs is an assistant professor in the history department at Stanford. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and she received…
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‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs: review San Francisco Chronicle 2014-11-01 Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African American Studies Princeton University Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Family across the color line: It is now a popular enough theme that it qualifies as a…