Passin' for Black: Race, Identity, and Bone Memory in Postracial America

Autor/in	Fordham, Signithia
Titel	Passin' for Black: Race, Identity, and Bone Memory in Postracial America
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 80 (2010) 1, S.4-30 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
Schlagwörter	Racial Bias; Ethnography; Racial Identification; Memory; Educational Environment; Identification (Psychology); African Americans; Whites; Slavery; Individual Characteristics; Personal Narratives; Racial Factors; Multiracial Persons; High School Students; Social Attitudes; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Ethnografie; Gedächtnis; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Sklaverei; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Erlebniserzählung; Mischling; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	Signithia Fordham challenges the notion that we are living in a "postracial" society where race is no longer a major social category, as indicated by the rising incidence of interracial relationships and the popularity of biracial identities. On the contrary, she contends, a powerful fusion of historical memory and inclusive kinship compels Americans whose ancestors were enslaved to embrace a Black identity even when they have White as well as African ancestors. Fordham identifies this socially constructed racial identity as "passin' for Black." She argues that virtually every socially defined Black person connected to enslavement--regardless of skin color, hair texture, facial features, or paternity--must perform Blackness. Using narratives obtained from a recent ethnographic study of female competition and aggression in a racially "integrated" suburban high school, Fordham's essay documents how the complex, charged matter of racial identity--concurrently biological and social--inflames the lives of adolescents and impairs their ability to navigate the school environment. (Contains 15 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10