People are not always what they appear to be. People are sometimes not what they want to be. |
When it comes to race and ethnicity in America, it can all get very complicated depending on who is defining whom, and why. People are not always what they appear to be. People are sometimes not what they want to be. In reality, race is as much a matter of politics as biology; ethnicity as much an expression of fashion as fate. It can be transient, changing from time to time and place to place.
Jonathan Tilove, “Of Susie Guillory Phipps and Chief Redbone: The Mutability of Race,” Newhouse News Service, (July 9, 1992). http://jonathantilove.com/mutability-of-race/
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