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I’ll take Kleeman and Hall more seriously once they drop the Blackity-Asiany angst and confront their unearned good-looks privilege.

Yeah, that’s why whites in the 50s and early 60s were so excited when blacks started moving into the neighborhood.

I’m going with the picture in Razib Khan’s write up, and the baby held by Liang’s mother. Although paler than sandra, the hair is, to me, a dead giveaway. It doesn’t shock me, but it does say there’s more African to that family than just “Afrikaan”.

Other responses pointed to the ways that racial categories continue to shape our collective thinking. When the trailer for the film debuted on social media, it prompted a deluge of tweets. Some shared memes featuring the movie title alongside photos of multiracial celebrities like Rashida Jones, Maya Rudolph and Thandiwe Newton — the implication being that these lighter-skinned actresses would be a better fit for the roles or that they were continuing to benefit from the ability to pass as white in Hollywood and beyond.

I’ve known a couple of WM/BF couples, where the women were West Indian and Sub Saharan African. One had children who were pretty dark, most people would say they were black. The other couple’s child is still a baby and cafe-au-lait. Do they get darker as they grow?

(That likely happens frequently in dog breeding as well, especially with newer and less established breeds like Jack Russells and yellow Labs, but I’m guessing “throwbacks” are or were oftentimes just culled, and outside of sex-selective abortions and the like, that kind of thing is frowned upon among humans, or at least hidden away.)

How about Rashida Jones, the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton? Now that’s a true passer. I had pelo idea Rashida was black until some article about her growing up with him as her father came out. To her credit, Jones has done very, very little to exploit her blackness to get roles. When she’s done work, its been comedies that she’s either very good in (The Office) or else underused by (Parks & Recreation).

So 34 year old Kleeman reaps the unearned privileges of a conventional, white pretty face and attractive figure. important link If her Wonder Years were defined by peers hounding her about her looks and her racial identity: who, exactly, encouraged this interest?

“And that was sort of where it stopped. And when I asked questions to my mother about her background in Detroit and her family,” Hall said, her voice low and firm, “she left it with an ‘I don’t want to dwell on the past.’”

The problem with casting obviously black women in roles where they are supposed to be able to pass as white is that the movie makes no sense Like Anthony Hopkins playing a black guy who passes, in the movie version of Philip Roth’s The Human Stain. At least it was a great movie!

I saw Ruth Negga as Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’ at the National Theatre in London. I didn’t think she really stood out but on the other hand it’s a thankless role.

As this novel was actually written in the late ’20’s, the timeframe similar to passing, it does show an interesting firsthand slice of life between the two races set in NY.

Are you kidding? Blacks LOVE race-mixing. They just want to be hypocrites and pretend they’re not doing it. That’s why they are the foremost opponents of multiracial and mixed-race identities as well as supporters of the “one drop” myth.

I’ve encountered people in the South who pretty definitely had a dollop of the old tar barrel, but thought of themselves as white — and therefore were white.