{"id":12997,"date":"2011-03-31T01:03:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12997"},"modified":"2014-10-23T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:40:09","slug":"passing-as-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12997","title":{"rendered":"Passing as Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passing as Black<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Vermont<\/a>
\nUniversity Communications<\/a>
\n2011-03-30<\/p>\n

Lee Ann Cox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The new dynamics of biracial identity in America<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation<\/a>, when \u201cone drop<\/a>\u201d of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a weakened but lingering cultural assumption and it shapes the way many mixed-race people navigate their lives. But a lot has changed, too. Particularly in the pre-civil rights era<\/a>, passing<\/a> as white\u2014if appearances made it plausible\u2014was a way to defy racist restrictions. Now, new research by University of Vermont sociologist Nikki Khanna<\/a> shows that passing has a new face.<\/p>\n

In a study published in the Social Psychology Quarterly<\/em><\/a>, Khanna finds that not only do black-white biracial adults exercise considerable control over how they identify, there is \u201ca striking reverse pattern of passing today,\u201d with a majority of survey respondents reporting that they pass as black.<\/p>\n

Passing, as currently defined, is about adopting an identity that contradicts your self-perception of race. Despite having a white mother and a black father, President Obama<\/a> considers himself black. He is not passing\u2014his identity is solidly rooted within the black community. The people Khanna interviewed, however, view themselves as biracial or multiracial, but choose to pass as black in certain contexts…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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