A Chosen Exile
Book Details
Author(s)Allyson Hobbs
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN / ASINB00O0NP3R8
ISBN-13978B00O0NP3R9
Sales Rank226,954
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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.
