FADING OUT BLACK AND WHITE

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade Not only is the literal face of America changing where white will no longer be the majority but the belief in the firmness of these categories and the boundaries that have been drawn is also disintegrating In a nuanced reading of culture in a post Obama America this book asks what will become of the racial categories of black and white in an increasingly multiethnic racially ambiguous and culturally fluid country Through readings of sites of cultural friction such as the media frenzy around 39transracial39 Rachel Dolezal the new popularity of racially ambiguous dolls and the confusion over Obama39s race Fading Out Black and White explores the contemporary construction of race This insightful provocative glimpse at identity formation in the US reviews the new frontier of race and looks back at the archaism of the onedrop rule that is unique to America