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A Chosen Exile
Author | : Allyson Hobbs |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674368101 |
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Introduction: 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.
A Chosen Exile
Author | : Allyson Hobbs |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674659929 |
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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 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, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.
Passing for who You Really are
Author | : A. D. Powell |
Publsiher | : Backintyme |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780939479221 |
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This eloquent spokesperson of the movement to abolish government sponsorship of the race notion believes that the one-drop rule ignores science, crushes tolerance, and mocks the American Dream. This collection of essays on multi-racialism originally appeared in Interracial Voice magazine.
The Oxford Book of Exile
Author | : John Simpson |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0192142216 |
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From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experience, with writers from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their exile, their emotions, their struggle and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in exile, the response is more mixed: ambivalence about the country they have left and the country they have chosen suffuses the writing of intellectuals seeking freedom of speech, as of ex-pats living in India or Australia. Those persecuted for their faith or their politics rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt, or even from the weather. Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their departure, their reception and sometimes their return, in an anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides a fascinating insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the imagination of us all.
Chosen Exile
Author | : Mary Bray Wheeler,Genon Hickerson Neblett |
Publsiher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-07-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1595552332 |
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In 1816, Henry and Septima Rutledge left the security of Charleston, SC to establish a county seat on the Elk River in Franklin County, Tennessee. This book brings an emerging nation into focus, from colonial Charleston to frontier Nashville, from the Revolution to the War Between the States. Illustrated and indexed.
Passing
Author | : Nella Larsen |
Publsiher | : Alien Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781667622651 |
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Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Passing first appeared in 1926.
One Drop
Author | : Bliss Broyard |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2007-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780316019736 |
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In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life. Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole had begun to conceal his racial identity after his family moved to Brooklyn and his parents resorted to "passing" in order to get work. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the favßade. Now his daughter Bliss tries to make sense of his choices. Seeking out unknown relatives in New York, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, Bliss uncovers the 250-year history of her family in America and chronicles her own evolution from privilged WASP to a woman of mixed-race ancestry.
Children of Exile
Author | : Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781442450035 |
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And their home is nothing like she'd expected, like nothing the Freds had prepared them for."--Back cover