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Allyson Hobbs

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Allyson Hobbs is an American historian, author, and associate professor at Stanford University. Hobbs is known for her scholarly work on African American history, especially her research on racial passing. Hobbs is also a prominent public intellectual, regularly engaging in contemporary discussions of race, inequality, and violence in America by drawing on historical contexts.

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