Allyson Hobbs – “A Chosen Exile”Posted in Audio, History, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2014-11-02 01:46Z by Steven |
Allyson Hobbs – “A Chosen Exile”
The Tavis Smiley Show
2014-10-31
Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Stanford University historian Allyson Hobbs explores the ways in which passing was a strategy for survival and an avenue to loss.
Listen to the episode here.