The term implies that there is something immutable that makes a person not white, so that you can *look* white but not actually *be* white.
But it doesn't work like that. It's visual.
Whiteness is a political system that benefits people with a certain phenotype.
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As a race scholar I'm consistently baffled at how uncritically people have adopted the term "white passing."
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But this is more than about identity. It's material.
Studies show that people's *externally identified* race is the best measure of social outcomes NOT self-identified race.
How you look matters. How people see you matters.
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@PhuzzieSlippers
Maybe I’m misunderstanding. Race is purely visual? Or something like the causes of the social effects of race are purely visual? or? I’ve been thinking of race like money: socially constructed, non-bio but maintained through complex factors. Is that wrong?
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