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Rent A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Mar 2016
Genre: Social Science - Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Retail Price: $21.00
Pages: 400
Synopsis
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.