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Auteur(s) : Hobbs, Allyson
Titre(s) : A chosen exile [Texte imprimé] : a history of racial passing in American life / Allyson Hobbs
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (382 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : 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 out on one's own. Hobbs explores the possibilities
and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country
obsessed with racial distinctions. It is also a tale of grief, loneliness, and isolation
that often accompanied the rewards
Sujet(s) : Passing (identité) -- Anthropologie -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Noirs américains -- Identité collective -- Histoire
Métis -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Relations interethniques -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674368101 (alkaline paper). - ISBN 067436810X (alkaline paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44272015b
Notice n° :
FRBNF44272015
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