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<p>Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss.<br><br>As rac
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- Author
- Allyson Vanessa Hobbs; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674735811
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Social History
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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