"HISTORY / United States / 19th Century" . . . . . . . . . . "[Description]Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions."@en . . "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." . . . . . . . . . "It was a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. 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. Hobbs explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It is also a tale of grief, loneliness, and isolation that often accompanied the rewards." . . . . "A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life" . "A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life"@en . . . . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "Identité (psychologie)" . . "Passing (Identity) United States History." . . "Noirs américains Identité collective Histoire." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations" . . "Exil États-Unis Histoire." . . "USA." . . "United States" . . "United States." . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies" . . "Rassismus." . . "Ethnische Identität." . . "Exiles." . . "Exiles" . "États-Unis" . . "Racially mixed people." . . "Racially mixed people" . "Passing (Identity)" . . "Entfremdung." . . "Stati Uniti d'America - Relazioni etniche." . . "Identitätspolitik." . . "Exiles United States History." . . "Noirs américains Identité ethnique Histoire." . . "Relations interethniques." . . "Mulâtres États-Unis Histoire." . . "African Americans Race identity History." . . "Identità (Sociologia) - Stati Uniti d'America." . . . . "Passing (Identité) États-Unis Histoire." . . "Race relations." . . "Race relations" . "Racially mixed people United States History." . . "Neri - Stati Uniti d'America." . . "African Americans Race identity." . . "African Americans Race identity" . "Métis États-Unis Histoire." . .