{"id":46049,"date":"2016-04-10T02:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T02:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46049"},"modified":"2016-04-12T01:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T01:14:51","slug":"allyson-hobbs-discusses-a-chosen-exile-a-history-of-racial-passing-in-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46049","title":{"rendered":"Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/allyson_hobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Allyson Hobbs discusses <\/strong><\/em><strong>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Book Store<\/a><br \/>\n1256 Massachusetts Avenue<br \/>\nCambridge, Massachusetts 02138<br \/>\n<strong>Monday, 2016-04-11, 19:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/allyson_hobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/images\/jackets\/9780674659926-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard Book Store and <a href=\"http:\/\/masshumanities.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mass Humanities<\/a> welcome Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a> discusses the paperback release of her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36295\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About <em>A Chosen Exile<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Countless African Americans have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passed as white<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/allyson_hobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,8,6462,20],"tags":[9812,23230,23231],"class_list":["post-46049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-harvard-book-store","tag-mass-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46050,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46049\/revisions\/46050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}