{"id":42638,"date":"2015-10-25T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T20:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42638"},"modified":"2015-12-20T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T19:14:52","slug":"309-passing-in-white-america%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42638","title":{"rendered":"309 | Passing in White America\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

309 | Passing in White America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Chicago Humanities Festival<\/a>
\nKarla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago<\/em>
\nReva and David Logan Center for the Arts<\/a>
\nFilm Screening Room 201
\n915 E 60th Street
\nChicago, Illinois 60637
\nSunday, 2015-10-25; 17:30-18:30 CDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white<\/a>, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs<\/a><\/strong> writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial indeterminacy offered an escape from slavery in the antebellum South and helped defy Jim Crow<\/a>. But in looking back at both American history and the story of her own family, Hobbs also uncovers the terrible grief, loneliness, and isolation of passing, and the ways it continues to influence our thinking about racial identity and politics.<\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allyson Hobbs<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/a><\/em>. Allyson received a PhD with distinction from the University of Chicago. Allyson teaches courses on American identity, African American history, African American women\u2019s history, and twentieth century American history. She has received numerous fellowships and teaching awards. She gave a TEDx talk at Stanford<\/a>, she has appeared on C-Span<\/a> and National Public Radio<\/a>, and her work has been featured on cnn.com and slate.com.<\/p>\n