Contributions

  • Gulati, Mitu - Contributor

Publication

2013 - Oxford University Press, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

49,500 words, Guess

Page Count

198 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC340.089/96073
  • LCCKF384 .C37 2013

Description

The authors argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race. Specifically, racial minorities are judged on how they "perform" their race: the clothes they wear, the way they style their hair, the institutions with which they affiliate, their racial politics, the people they befriend, date or marry, where they live, how they speak, and their outward mannerisms and demeanor.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Acting white?Oxford University Press2013-01-01

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