Passing in White America
Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial indeterminacy offered an escape from slavery in the antebellum South and helped defy Jim Crow. But in looking back at both American history and the story of her own family, Hobbs also uncovers the terrible grief, loneliness, and isolation of passing, and the ways it continues to influence our thinking about racial identity and politics.
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This program is presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago and is presented in partnership with the Stanford Humanities Center.
This program was recorded on October 25, 2015 as part of the 26th annual Chicago Humanities Festival, Citizens: http://chf.to/2015Citizens
See upcoming CHF events: http://chicagohumanities.org
Help us subtitle and translate our videos: http://chf.to/SubtitleCHF
Subscribe for more thought-provoking videos: http://chf.to/SubscribeCHF
Support CHF with a donation: http://chf.to/Support-CHF
Follow CHF on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Chi_Humanities
Like CHF on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chicagohumanities
Subscribe to the CHF podcast on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-humanities-festival/id303222991
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