A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life /

[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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
African Americans > Race identity > History.
Passing (Identity) > United States > History.
Racially mixed people > United States > History.
Exiles > United States > History.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique > Histoire.
Passing (Identité) > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans > Race identity
Exiles
Passing (Identity)
Race relations
Racially mixed people
Ethnische Identität
Entfremdung
Identitätspolitik
Noirs américains > Identité collective > Histoire.
Métis > États-Unis > Histoire.
Relations interethniques.
Afro-amerikaner > historia.
Rasrelationer > historia.
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States
USA
États-Unis > Relations interethniques > Histoire.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: To live a life elsewhere
  • White is the color of freedom
  • Waiting on a white man's chance
  • Lost kin
  • Searching for a new soul in Harlem
  • Coming home
  • Epilogue: On identity.

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