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Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial 'passing'

December 18, 2013
Read more and see the video in the Stanford Report

In the margins of historical accounts and the dusty corners of family archives, Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white, from the late 18th century to the present.

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