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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life | Allyson Hobbs

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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.

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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life | Allyson Hobbs

Readathon Update! I've read my issues of Wuthering Heights and The Man with the Twisted Lip. I read an ebook ...But I'm not a Racist and finally finished reading the book pictured above--the sections on Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, and Langston Hughes were interesting. #24in48 #readathon

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