From the Tampa Bay Times:
More than any other, one moment crystallizes the confusing, sometimes comically absurd contortions built up around racial identity unveiled in CNN's latest documentary Who Is Black in America?...It's when Becca Khalil, a Philadelphia-based high schooler who is the light-skinned child of Egyptian parents, feels compelled to identify herself as white on a college scholarship application.... Andrew Penner, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, agreed that racial identity often boils down to how people see themselves and how the world sees them. And while most people find those two visions are synchronized, increasing numbers don't.  Penner's work, focused on how society classifies people, indicates that people's race may change over time and circumstance, often depending on how much they rise or fall in social status.

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