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Fading Out Black and White
Racial Ambiguity in American Culture
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2018
Summary
What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority, but the belief in the firmness of these categories and the boundaries that have been drawn is also disintegrating.
In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America, this book asks what will become of the racial categories of black and white in an increasingly multi-ethnic, racially ambiguous, and culturally fluid country. Through readings of sites of cultural friction such as the media frenzy around ‘transracial’ Rachel Dolezal, the new popularity of racially ambiguous dolls, and the confusion over Obama’s race, Fading Out Black and White explores the contemporary construction of race.
This insightful, provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.
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Edition
1/2018
Copyright Year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-78660-254-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-78660-256-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
208
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
1 Tracing Race No access Pages 21 - 36
2 The Trial of Rachel Dolezal No access Pages 37 - 58
3 Obama as Racial Rorschach No access Pages 59 - 80
4 Casting Color No access Pages 81 - 106
5 Really Black No access Pages 107 - 136
6 Talking About Race No access Pages 137 - 164
Coda No access Pages 165 - 168
Appendix 1 Demographic Information Form No access Pages 169 - 170
Appendix 2 Flyer for Focus Groups No access Pages 171 - 172
