A Chosen Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chosen Exile write by Allyson Hobbs. This book was released on 2014-10-13. A Chosen Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Passing for who You Really are - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passing for who You Really are write by A. D. Powell. This book was released on 2005. Passing for who You Really are available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Chosen Exile
Chosen Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chosen Exile write by Mary Bray Wheeler. This book was released on 1980. Chosen Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Oxford Book of Exile
The Oxford Book of Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Exile write by John Simpson. This book was released on 1995. The Oxford Book of Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Exile's Valor
Exile's Valor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exile's Valor write by Mercedes Lackey. This book was released on 2004-10-05. Exile's Valor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This stand-alone novel in the Valdemar series continues the story of prickly weapons-master Alberich. Once a heroic Captain in the army of Karse, a kingdom at war with Valdemar, Alberich becomes one of Valdemar's Heralds. Despite prejudice against him, he becomes the personal protector of young Queen Selenay. But can he protect her from the dangers of her own heart?
