Her plan in part is to follow the Green Book. It wasnt like I could go into a library and find a folder. Nowhere to Run: African American Travel in Twentieth Century America explores the violence, humiliation, and indignities that African American motorists experienced on the road and To Tell the Terrible, which examines black womens testimonies against and collective memory of sexual violence. Stanford, CA 94305-2024%20history-info [at] stanford.edu ()target="_blank"Campus Map, Understanding the past to prepare for the future, Ph.D., University of Chicago, History (2009), A.B., Harvard University, Social Studies (1997), 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. Another family will live in our house. PROVO, Utah (Mar. He remained close to the other Harlans but never tried to take on their whiteness. She served on the jury for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in History. Those are the only fragments of that story that I have, Hobbs says. But the crevice opened wider when she read the papers of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, PhD31. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. In 2017, she was honored by the Silicon Valley chapter of the NAACP with a Freedom Fighter Award. She has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC and National Public Radio. Author of the 1923 modernist classic Cane, Toomer came from an illustrious, high-powered racially mixed family. I was in college at the time, and it felt like the ultimate inside joke handed from one racially ambiguous person to another. Hobbsis an associate professor in Stanford Universitys Department of History,director of African and African American studies,and a Kleinheinz University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Allysons first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, published by Harvard University Press in 2014, examines the phenomenon of racial passing in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Ill remember my dad putting up the volleyball net in the backyard, securing the swing set and carrying home kids who had taken hard falls on the Slip N Slide. Their four children grew up believing they were white. She is currently writingtwo books,Far from Sanctuary: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, which examinesthe road trip through the lens of 20th-century African American motorists,and To Tell the Terrible, which explores the collective memory of sexual violence among generations of Black women. Many threads weave through A Chosen Exile, released last fall to glowing reviews: the meaning of identity, the elusive concept of race, ever-shifting color lines and cultural borderlands. 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. One of the most interesting figures in the book is the novelist and poet Jean Toomer. Allyson Hobbs, an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University, discussed research from her award-winning book, A Chosen Exile: A History on Racial Passing in American Life, at a Women's Studies Colloquium. A Chosen Exile has been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Harpers, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Boston Globe. The book was also selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014, a Best 15 Nonfiction Books by Black Authors in 2014 by The Root, a featured book in the New York Times Book Review Paperback Row in 2016, and a Paris Review What Our Writers are Reading This Summer Selection in 2017.