A
Black
History
Month
Presentation
8:00 - 9:30 AM
A Chosen Exile
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lecture and book signing
February 28, 2016 (Sunday)
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
2950 Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati OH 45206
Featured Speaker : Allyson Hobbs, PhD,
Assistant Professor, Department of
History, Stanford University
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries,
countless African Americans passed as white, leaving
behind families and friends, roots and community.
Allyson’s first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial
Passing in American Life examines the phenomenon
of racial passing in the United States from the late
eighteenth century to the present. 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.
Reservations available by email @
friendsharrietbeecherstowe@gmail.com
or call 513-751-0651.
Presented by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. For more information,
visit www.stowehousecincy.org.