I dont have to shuttle between two homes, I wont have to endure remarriages, I dont believe that I am at fault. (now Secretary of Commerce) Gina M. Raimondo 93. Allyson Hobbs is an Associate Professor of United States History, the Director of African and African American Studies, and the Kleinheinz Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. This collaboration never fails to fill me with joy., She called writing her thesis about the Highlander Folk School, nestled in the mountains of Tennessee, transformative. Hobbss cousin was 18 when she was sent by her mother to live in Los Angeles and pass as a white woman in the late 1930s. My father cant go back to the Chicago of the nineteen-fifties. I didnt have the time or the instinct to soften or parry the blow. Anyone can read what you share. She served on the jury for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in History. "Storytelling Matters to Historian Allyson Hobbs,"The Stanford Dish, February 19, 2016, "Stanford Historian Re-examines Practice of Racial 'Passing,'"Stanford Report, December 18, 2013. Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (191095) illuminated stellar evolution. From left: a portrait; Jean Toomer Papers: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; The Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library. When historians have taken on the subject, Hobbs points out, they have generally paid far more attention to what was gained by passing as white than to what was lost by rejecting a black racial identity. Hobbs, on the other hand, insists on seeing the history of passing as a coherent and enduring narrative of loss. We hear from the black family left behind. She has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC and National Public Radio. Its the early nineteen-fifties, and he sits by the radio with his family, looking at the frosted Christmas tree with bubbly lights. His family did not have much money, but, as he would later tell us with a smile, We didnt know we were poor. His grandmother cleaned the homes of white families and often came back to the apartment with stories of what the white folks do. Setting the Christmas table with her best china, she would turn to my father and my aunt and say, with satisfaction, This is the way the white folks do it. The world of the white folks was just as remote geographically as it was in imagination and in experience.
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