In this campaign, Clinton, Trump flash their racial credentials
In this campaign, Clinton, Trump flash their racial credentials
- October 3, 2016
- Jennifer Lee, sociology, via NPR, Oct. 3, 2016
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The people I talked to liken it to someone saying, "Some of my best friends are black,"
or, "My wife is Mexican," before embarking on a questionable diatribe about African-Americans
or Mexican-Americans. Often, people deploy these phrases to position themselves as
"insiders," or to give themselves license to say something offensive, said Jennifer
Lee, an expert on race and immigration at the University of California, Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/10/03/496094506/in-this-campaign-clinton-trump-flash-their-racial-credentials.
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