{"id":57639,"date":"2019-02-20T19:37:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57639"},"modified":"2019-02-20T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:37:25","slug":"passing-and-the-costs-and-benefits-of-appropriating-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57639","title":{"rendered":"Passing and the Costs and Benefits of Appropriating Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passing and the Costs and Benefits of Appropriating Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Review of Black Political Economy<\/a>
\nVolume 45, Issue 2, 2018<\/a>
\npages 1-19
\nDOI: 10.1177\/0034644618789182<\/a><\/p>\n

Kristen E. Broady<\/strong><\/a>, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies
\nKentucky State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Curtis L. Todd<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Social Work
\nAtlanta Metropolitan State College, Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

William A. Darity, Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy
\nDuke University, Durham, North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n

The socioeconomic position of Blacks in America<\/a> cannot be fully contextualized without considering the marginalization of their racialized social identities as minorities who have historically combated subjugation and oppression with respect to income, employment, homeownership, education, and political representation. It is not difficult to understand why the historical reference to \u201cpassing<\/a>\u201d primarily has been associated with Blacks who were able to\u2014and many who did\u2014claim to be White<\/a> to secure the social, educational, political, and economic benefits that were reserved for Whites. Therefore, the majority of passing narratives have focused on Black to White passing. This article departs from the tradition in the literature by considering appropriation of various aspects of Black culture and White to Black passing. We evaluate the socioeconomic costs and benefits of being Black and inequalities in citizenship status between Blacks and Whites. Furthermore, we examine the socioeconomic and political capital of Blackness versus Whiteness in an attempt to explore the rationality of passing for Black.<\/p>\n

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We evaluate the socioeconomic costs and benefits of being Black and inequalities in citizenship status between Blacks and Whites. Furthermore, we examine the socioeconomic and political capital of Blackness versus Whiteness in an attempt to explore the rationality of passing for Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14647,8,6462,394,20],"tags":[29518,29519,29521,29520,9190,9189,7066],"class_list":["post-57639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-economics","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-curtis-l-todd","tag-curtis-todd","tag-kristen-broady","tag-kristen-e-broady","tag-review-of-black-political-economy","tag-the-review-of-black-political-economy","tag-william-a-darity-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57640,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57639\/revisions\/57640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}