A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Tapa dura - 2014

Harvard University Press. Used - Good. ATTN: EX-LIBRARY COPY>>> Former Library book. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Harvard University Press, 2014-10-13. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Slight cover and edge wear, Hardcover Book,some dog eared pages,

Harvard University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harvard University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harvard University Press. Used - Very Good. 2014. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Very Good. (Subject: Black Studies).

Harvard University Press, 2014-10-13. Hardcover. Like New/Near Fine. Like New. DJ has very light shelf wear.

Paperback. Very Good.

Harvard University Press, 2014-10-13. Hardcover. Used:Good.

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Materials from National Archives event at which author signed book included. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
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 leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss.As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal,… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.