{"id":45461,"date":"2016-01-31T01:43:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45461"},"modified":"2016-02-25T00:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:50:32","slug":"45461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45461","title":{"rendered":"A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Emory University<\/a>
\nRobert W. Woodruff Library<\/a>, Jones Room
\n540 Asbury Circle
\nAtlanta, Georgia 30322
\nMonday, 2016-02-15, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference<\/a><\/p>\n

Allyson Hobbs<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History
\nStanford University<\/em><\/p>\n

In this Race and Difference Colloquium<\/a>, Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University, discusses her first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, published by Harvard University Press in October 2014. The book examines the phenomenon of racial passing<\/a> in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. A Chosen Exile<\/em> won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award<\/a> for best first book in American History and the Lawrence Levine Award<\/a> for best book in American cultural history.<\/p>\n