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How Mixed Race Is Not Constructed
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American racial identities change over time and place, as all social constructions do, but they are also stable in historical and generational ways, because people in the same family are usually the same race. This is not the case for mixed race, particularly mixed black and white (MBW). People in mixed-race families belong to different races. Motives from self-interest, to lack of racial solidarity, to a sense of justice could motivate choosing mixed-race identity. Passing for the race others think one is not, and conforming or not, to norms for racial identities raise social and moral questions for members of the unconstructed racial group of mixed-race Americans.
Title: How Mixed Race Is Not Constructed
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American racial identities change over time and place, as all social constructions do, but they are also stable in historical and generational ways, because people in the same family are usually the same race.
This is not the case for mixed race, particularly mixed black and white (MBW).
People in mixed-race families belong to different races.
Motives from self-interest, to lack of racial solidarity, to a sense of justice could motivate choosing mixed-race identity.
Passing for the race others think one is not, and conforming or not, to norms for racial identities raise social and moral questions for members of the unconstructed racial group of mixed-race Americans.
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