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Article: Who's Black and who's not: new ethnicity raises provocative questions about racial identity. (includes quiz)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 1990
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Who's Black And Who's Not?
THE rising young starlet had long been identified with Black and Black-oriented things.
She made the "Black" scene, dated Black men, read Jet and sang in the backup group of a major Black star. But when a lucky break lifted the cafe au lait singer to the top of the pop charts, she quickly backed away from Black things, announcing to the world--and to her amused and incredulous Black friends--that she was "Inidan, Spanish, Irish and French Creole."
Within recent years, this scenario has become fairly common, even in the business and educational worlds. While throughout history there always have been those fair-skinned ...