What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a
matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a
person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to
spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it
mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In
Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado
and Mitu Gulati 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. This performance pervades every aspect of
their daily life, whether it's 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. Employing these cues, decision-makers decide not simply
whether a person is black but the degree to which she or he is so.
Relying on numerous examples from the workplace, higher education,
and police interactions, the authors demonstrate that, for African
Americans, the costs of "acting black" are high, and so are the
pressures to "act white." But, as the authors point out, "acting
white" has costs as well. Provocative yet never doctrinaire, Acting
White? will boldly challenge your assumptions and make you think
about racial prejudice from a fresh vantage point.
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