And 20th century american history. She has won numerous awards including the teaching prize, the award in the humanities and the teaching award. She gave a talk at stanford and has appeared on cspan and National Public radio and her work has been featured on cnn. Com and the chronicle of higher education. The history is allisons first book and is featured on the National Public radio all Things Considered the public radio Show International and the show on sirius x. M. The book was selected as a New York Times book review editors editors choice, best book of 2014 night at San Francisco chronicle and a book of the week by the Times Higher Education in london. It was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books by blog authors in 2015. Please join me in welcoming allison hops to the national archives. [applause] thank you so much for such a lovely wonderful generes introduction. Thanks for inviting me to come to the national archives. Its such a pleasure being in a beautiful city with such
Discrimination that shes facing as a black woman but she decides to pass as white and shes working in this store and another comes in because shes looking for her and Fredi Washington gets very nervous and has to really ignore her mother and it creates this huge heart wrenching scene, and then eventually our manager comes over and is one of whats going on and it appears shes got this black mother. That means shes black and she cant work at the store if shes black. So theres a just numerous examples that are very very intense and you know and florida very moving and very powerful but i think would really translate to film very nicely. So thank you. Thanks so much for your work. Its a very fascinating. You noted i was just wondering you noted the relationship between class and passing. And then also i wonder if you noticed the relationship between latitude and passing, i. E. Southern much more passing versus northern . And i suggest that because increasingly what im finding is that as a
Ramifications of passing which included greater rights and opportunities but also isolation and disregard from the greater africanamerican community. Or topic for today is a chosen exile a history of racial passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs. Allyson hobbs is an assistant professor in the History Department at stanford university. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received im sorry from Harvard University and she received a ph. D. With distinction from the university of chicago. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation and michelle are claman institute for gender research and the center for comparative study of race and ethnicity at stanford trade allison teaches courses on american identity africanamerican history africanamerican womens history and 20th century american history. She has won numerous Teaching Awards including the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize the grapes award in the humanities the sinclair great teaching award. She gave a ted