A chosen exile a history of racial passing in American life
2016
DAISY Sound Recording
Historian examines the phenomenon of African Americans passing as white, separating themselves from one racial identity to take on another. Discusses the grief and isolation that historically often accompanied the rewards for this choice, particularly during the rise of the civil rights era. 2014
Item Details
Edition: Daisy edition.
Description:
- 1 DAISY disc (11 hours, 59 minutes) : sound ; 12 cm
- 4 3/4 in.
- digital DAISY
- audio file Daisy
Target Audience Note: Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
- Narrated by: Jake Williams.
- Digital talking book. 2 levels and 18 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
- Recorded from: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014. 9780674368101.
- System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
- DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
- 2014 Allyson Hobbs
- Description based on print version.
Contents:
- 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.
LCCN: 2015993179
Control Number: 3175097
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2016.Subjects:
- African Americans -- Race identity -- History.
- Daisy talking books.
- Exiles -- United States -- History.
- Passing (Identity) -- United States -- History.
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- History.
- Racism -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Race relations -- History.
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