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Transracial Activists
Transracial may refer to: * Transracial adoption, placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group * Transracial (identity), having a racial identity or racial expression that differs from one's race of birth * Racial transformation, the process by which a region changes in racial composition See also * Passing (racial identity), a person classified as a member of one racial group is also accepted as a member of a different racial group *Racial misrepresentation, when someone misrepresents their ethnic or racial background * Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study, a study on whether non-white children adopted by white families gained an IQ advantage. * Multiracial, people with an identifiable heritage from more than a single racial group * Ethnic plastic surgery, changing an individual's appearance to look more or less like a particular race or ethnicity * Hypatia transracialism controversy The feminist philosophy journal ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interracial
Interracial topics include: * Interracial marriage, marriage between two people of different races ** Interracial marriage in the United States *** 2009 Louisiana interracial marriage incident * Interracial adoption, placing a child of one racial group or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group * Interracial personals, advertisements * Interracial pornography, a form of visual pornography depicting sexual activity between performers of different racial groups * Miscegenation, the mixing of different racial groups ** Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States * Commission on Interracial Cooperation, an organization in the southern United States in the early 20th century * Multiracial, people with an identifiable heritage from more than a single racial group * First interracial kiss on television See also * * Exogamy * Transracial (other) Transracial may refer to: * Transracial adoption, placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transracial Adoption
Interracial adoption (historically referred to as transracial adoption) refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group. Interracial adoption is not inherently the same as transcultural or international adoption. However, in some circumstances an adoption may be interracial, international, and transcultural at the same time (or some combination of two of those). Statistics Based on the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) in the U.S., the fiscal year of 1998 showed that approximately 57% of children currently in foster care were of non-Caucasian background; 43% were white. Out of all foster children waiting for adoption 21% are black, 23% are Hispanic, 2% are American Indian/Alaska Native, 0% are Asian/Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian, and 1% are unknown/unable to determine. Data from 2019 50.7% of adoptees that year were White, 20.1% Hispanic, 16.5% Black or African American, 9.2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transracial (identity)
Transracial people identify as a different race than the one associated with their biological ancestry. They may adjust their appearance to make themselves look more like that race, and they may participate in activities associated with that race. Controversy over the term Historically, ''transracial'' has been used to describe parents who adopt a child of a different race. The use of the term to describe changing racial identity has been criticized by members of the transracial adoption community. Kevin H. Vollmers, executive director of an adoption non-profit, said the term is being "appropriated and co-opted" and that this is a "slap in the face" to transracial adoptees. In June 2015, about two dozen transracial adoptees, transracial parents and academics published an open letter in which they condemned the new usage as "erroneous, ahistorical, and dangerous." In April 2017, the feminist philosophy journal ''Hypatia'' published an academic paper in support of recognizing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racial Transformation
Racial transformation is the process by which a demographic region (e.g., a country, neighborhood, or a school) changes in racial composition. See also *'' Them: A Novel'' * Transracial (identity) References Race and society Gentrification Urbanization {{polisci-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Passing (racial Identity)
Racial passing occurs when a person classified as a member of a racial group is accepted or perceived ("passes") as a member of another. Historically, the term has been used primarily in the United States to describe a black or brown person or of multiracial ancestry who assimilated into the white majority to escape the legal and social conventions of racial segregation and discrimination. In the United States Passing for white Although anti-miscegenation laws outlawing racial intermarriage existed in America as early as 1664, there were no laws preventing or prosecuting the rape of enslaved girls and women. Rape of slaves was legal and encouraged during slavery to increase slave population. For generations, enslaved black mothers bore mixed-race children who were deemed "mulattos", "quadroons", "octoroons", or "hexadecaroons" based on their percentage of "black blood". Although these mixed-race people were often half white or more, institutions of hypodescent and the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racial Misrepresentation
Racial or ethnic misrepresentation occurs when someone deliberately misrepresents their racial or ethnic background. It may occur for a variety of reasons, such as someone attempting to benefit from affirmative action programs for which they are not eligible. Critical race theory examines how people of European descent are, in recent history, more likely to pretend to be people of color. However, historically, many people of color passed as white for survival and safety. It is possible for a person of any race or ethnicity to misrepresent themselves or be misrepresented. Often racial misrepresentation occurs when people of one race or ethnicity, unfamiliar with real people of another culture, replicate the racial stereotypes of that racial or ethnic group. Typically, this is seen as offensive when negative racial stereotypes are mimicked, but it can be also be experienced as inappropriate even when the imitation is intended as flattery. An example of this is people wearing cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study
The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined the IQ test scores of 130 black or interracial children adopted by advantaged white families. The aim of the study was to determine the contribution of environmental and genetic factors to the poor performance of black children on IQ tests as compared to white children. The initial study was published in 1976 by Sandra Scarr and Richard A. Weinberg. A follow-up study was published in 1992 by Richard Weinberg, Sandra Scarr and Irwin D. Waldman. Another related study investigating social adjustment in a subsample of the adopted black children was published in 1996. The 1992 follow-up study found that "social environment maintains a dominant role in determining the average IQ level of black and interracial children and that both social and genetic variables contribute to individual variations among them." Background and study design On measures of cognitive ability (IQ tests) and school performance, black children in the U.S. have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiracial
Mixed race people are people of more than one race or ethnicity. A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for mixed race people in a variety of contexts, including ''multiethnic'', ''polyethnic'', occasionally ''bi-ethnic'', '' Métis'', '' Muwallad'', ''Colored'', ''Dougla'', ''half-caste'', '' ʻafakasi'', ''mestizo'', ''Melungeon'', ''quadroon'', ''octoroon'', '' sambo/zambo'', ''Eurasian'', ''hapa'', ''hāfu'', ''Garifuna'', ''pardo'' and ''Guran''. A number of these terms are now considered offensive, in addition to those that were initially coined for pejorative use. Individuals of mixed-race backgrounds make up a significant portion of the population in many parts of the world. In North America, studies have found that the mixed race population is continuing to grow. In many countries of Latin America, mestizos make up the majority of the population and in some others also mulattoes. In the Caribbean, mixed race people officially make up the majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Plastic Surgery
Ethnic plastic surgery, or ethnic modification, is plastic surgery intended to change an individual's appearance to look more or less like a particular race or ethnicity. Popular plastic surgery procedures which may have an ethnically-motivated component include rhinoplasty (nose surgery) and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery). Michael Jackson's plastic surgery has been discussed in the context of ethnic plastic surgery. In her book, ''Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery'', Elizabeth Haiken devotes a chapter to "The Michael Jackson Factor" presenting "black, Asian, and Jewish women who seek WASP noses and Playboy breasts. They are caught in the vexed immigrants' dilemma of struggling not only to keep up with the Joneses but to look like them, too." Ethical considerations Plastic surgeons Chuma J. Chike-Obi, M.D., Kofi Boahene, M.D., and Anthony E. Brissett, M.D., F.A.C.S. distinguish between motivations of aesthetics and racial transformation for patients of African descent s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypatia Transracialism Controversy
The feminist philosophy journal ''Hypatia'' became involved in a dispute in April 2017 that led to the online shaming of one of its authors, Rebecca Tuvel, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis. The journal had published a peer-reviewed article by Tuvel in which she compared the situation of Caitlyn Jenner, a trans woman, to that of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who identifies as black. When the article was criticized on social media, scholars associated with ''Hypatia'' joined in the criticism and urged the journal to retract it.Singal, Jesse (2 May 2017)"This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like" ''New York'' magazine. The controversy exposed a rift within the journal's editorial team and more broadly within feminism and academic philosophy. In the article—"In Defense of Transracialism", published in ''Hypatia''s spring 2017 issue on 25 April—Tuvel argued that "since we should accept transgender individuals' decisions to change sexes, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
