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Title A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life / Allyson Hobbs.
Author Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa, author.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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 Chickasaw  305.8009 HOB    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  305.8009 HOB    Check Shelves
Description 382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject African Americans -- Race identity -- History.
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- History.
Exiles -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
ocls african american adult books
ISBN 9780674368101 (hbk.) : $29.95
067436810X (hbk.)