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about it because it is always a priority. It indicates how imperative it is to identify, or sort racially
every person in the space which one inhabits, most benignly so that one does not do or say
anything that could possibly offend, less benignly because the social hierarchy requires constant
in-group and out-group assessment (Allport, 1979) and racial border patrolling (Dalmadge
2007). The interviewees in this study because they are racially ambiguous are likely to be the
constant objects of this curiosity.
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Figure 2. Objectification of racially ambiguous people.
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Smith, Starita. “What Are You?”: Racial Ambiguity and the Social Construction of Race in the Us, dissertation, May 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115163/m1/79/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .