Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American LifePosted in History, Live Events, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2016-04-10 02:47Z by Steven |
Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Monday, 2016-04-11, 19:00 EDT (Local Time)
Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs discusses the paperback release of her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
About A Chosen Exile
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.
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