Title A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life / Allyson Hobbs.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Description	382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity.
Summary	It was a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one's own. Hobbs explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It is also a tale of grief, loneliness, and isolation that often accompanied the rewards.
Subject	African Americans -- Race identity -- History.
	Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History.
	Racially mixed people -- United States -- History.
	Exiles -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Race relations -- History.
	African Americans -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00799666
	Exiles. (OCoLC)fst00918139
	Passing (Identity) (OCoLC)fst01054417
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racially mixed people. (OCoLC)fst01086595
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Ethnische Identität. (DE-588)4153096-2
	Entfremdung. (DE-588)4014867-1
	Identitätspolitik. (DE-588)1023334607
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	Afro-amerikaner -- historia.
	Rasrelationer -- historia.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780674368101 (cloth : alkaline paper)
	067436810X (cloth : alkaline paper)
	9780674659926 (paperback)
	0674659929 (paperback)

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