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

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Description	1 online resource (382 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-363) and index.
Contents	Prologue: 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	[Description]Countless African Americans have passed as white, 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.
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Subject	African Americans -- Race identity -- History.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	History.
	Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History.
	Passing (Identity)
	United States.
	Racially mixed people -- United States -- History.
	Racially mixed people.
	Exiles -- United States -- History.
	Exiles.
	United States -- Race relations -- History.
	Race relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa. Chosen exile. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014 9780674368101 (DLC) 2014008725 (OCoLC)875999888
ISBN	9780674735811 (electronic book)
	0674735811 (electronic book)
	9780674368101
	067436810X