Chosen Exile - Hobbs Allyson
Chosen Exile - Hobbs Allyson Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. This revelatory…
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Chosen Exile - Hobbs Allyson
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. 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 was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, 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. It also tells a tale of loss.As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one's birthright.
When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and
Chosen Exile - Hobbs Allyson
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