{"id":63189,"date":"2022-02-21T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63189"},"modified":"2022-02-21T22:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:36:05","slug":"fading-out-black-and-white-racial-ambiguity-in-american-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63189","title":{"rendered":"Fading Out Black and White: Racial Ambiguity in American Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fading Out Black and White: Racial Ambiguity in American Culture<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers<\/a>
\nAugust 2018
\n224 pages
\nTrim: 6 x 9
\nHardback ISBN: 978-1-78660-254-1
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-78660-255-8
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-78660-256-5<\/p>\n

Lisa Simone Kingstone<\/strong><\/a>, Visiting Scholar, New School for Social Research, New York, New York; Associate Professor at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America<\/a>, 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 \u2018transracial\u2019 Rachel Dolezal<\/a>, the new popularity of racially ambiguous dolls, and the confusion over Obama\u2019s<\/a> race, Fading Out Black and White<\/em> explores the contemporary construction of race.<\/p>\n

This insightful, provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US<\/a> reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the one-drop rule that is unique to America.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n