Category: The Prize

Passing as Black: How Biracial Americans Choose Identity (Time)

By MEREDITH MELNICK The practice of passing — identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another — reached its peak during the Jim Crow era. Needless to say, the notion of having to “pass” as white is outdated and offensive, but as sociologists Nikki Khanna and Cathryn Johnson report in a [...]