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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life – Allyson Hobbs<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Research at the National Archives and Beyond<\/a>
\nBlogTalk Radio<\/a>
\nThursday, 2014-11-06, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-07, 02:00Z)<\/p>\n

Bernice Bennett<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/span><\/p>\n

Allyson Hobbs<\/a> is an assistant professor in the history department at Stanford. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and she received a Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Chicago. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford. Allyson teaches courses on American identity, African American history, African American women\u2019s history, and twentieth century American history. She has won numerous teaching awards including the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. She has appeared on C-SPAN<\/em> and National Public Radio<\/em> and her work has been featured on CNN.com<\/em> and Slate.com<\/em>. Allyson\u2019s first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, published by Harvard University Press, examines the phenomenon of racial passing<\/a> in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present.<\/p>\n