{"id":54545,"date":"2017-07-17T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T00:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54545"},"modified":"2017-07-17T00:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T00:19:48","slug":"allyson-hobbs-a-chosen-exile-makes-summer-reading-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54545","title":{"rendered":"Allyson Hobbs\u2019 A Chosen Exile makes summer reading lists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allyson Hobbs\u2019 <\/strong><\/em>A Chosen Exile<\/strong> makes summer reading lists<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stanford News<\/a>
\nStanford University, Stanford, California
\n2017-07-14<\/p>\n

Alex Shashkevich<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAllyson Hobbs<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life<\/em><\/a>, written by historian ALLYSON HOBBS<\/a>, made it to the 2017 summer reading lists of Harvard University Press and The Paris Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2014 book examines the phenomenon of racial passing<\/a>, which is an intentional attempt by a person to assume a different racial identity, in the United States<\/a> from the late 18th century\u00a0to the present. Hobbs was inspired by a story her aunt told her about a distant cousin who passed as a white woman in the 1940s.<\/p>\n

\u201cNecessarily, Hobbs writes, passing involves erasure: gradations gone, subtleties of color and culture reduced to black and white,\u201d wrote Julie Orringer<\/a> in The Paris Review<\/em>. \u201cWhat\u2019s lost in the process: families and friends, a sense of belonging.\u00a0A Chosen Exile<\/em>\u00a0illuminates those losses with acuity, rigor and compassion.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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