A Chosen Exile
Passing (Identity)
Métis
Identité collective
Ethnische Identität
African americans, race identity
Exiles
United states, ethnic relations
Racially mixed people
Race identity
Minority Studies
African americans, history
Discrimination & Race Relations
Relations interethniques
Noirs américains
United states, race relations
Historia
Race relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
African Americans
New York Times reviewed
History
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. To pass as white in the antebel…
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