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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the le

ISBN-13: 9780674659926

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication Date: 03-07-2016

Pages: 400

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Allyson Hobbs is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Prologue: To Live a Life Elsewhere 1

1 White Is the Color of Freedom 28

2 Waiting on a White Man's Chance 71

3 Lost Kin 124

4 Searching for a New Soul in Harlern 175

5 Coming Home 217

Epilogur: On Identity 266

Notes 281

Acknowledgments 365

Index 373