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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
by Allyson Hobbs
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A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in American A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in American Life Allyson Hobbs on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Between the eighteenth and midtwentieth centuries countless African Americans passed as white leaving behind families and friends A Chosen Exile Black People Passing In White America The dissertation became A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in America Its a history of passing told through the lens of personal stories Once Hobbs began researching the stories came thick and fast There was New Yorker Theophilus McKee whod chosen to live as a white man for all of his adult life A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in America by A Chosen Exile A History of Racial Passing in American Life is the perfect example of without DNA testing people with white skin don’t know if they are black or white because many blacks who looked white married whites had children who looked white and no one knew the truth but the black person who looked white A Chosen Exile — Allyson Hobbs Harvard University Press 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
