A chosen exile a history of racial passing in American life /
It was 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. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike ou...
| Main Author: | Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects: |
CMU Main Books 3rd Floor
| Location | Call Number: | Status |
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| CMU Main Books 3rd Floor | E185.625 .H63 2014 |
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