Transracial may refer to:
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Transracial adoption
Interracial adoption (historically referred to as transracial adoption) refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group.
Interracial adoption is not inherently the same a ...
, placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group
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Transracial (identity)
Transracial is a label used by people who identify as a different race than the one they were born into. They may adjust their appearance to make themselves look more like that race, and may participate in activities associated with that race. ...
, having a racial identity or racial expression that differs from one's race of birth
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Racial transformation
Racial transformation is the process by which a demographic region (e.g., a country, neighborhood, or a school) changes in racial composition.
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Transracial is a label used by people who ide ...
, the process by which a region changes in racial composition
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Passing (racial identity)
In the United States of America, racial passing occurred when a person who was categorized as Black in regard to their race in the United States of America, sought to be accepted or perceived (" to pass") as a member of another racial group,
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, a person classified as a member of one racial group is also accepted as a member of a different racial group
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Racial misrepresentation
Racial or ethnic misrepresentation occurs when someone deliberately misrepresents their racial or ethnic background. It may occur for a variety of reasons, such as someone attempting to benefit from affirmative action programs for which they are n ...
, when someone misrepresents their ethnic or racial background
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Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study
The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined the IQ test scores of 130 black or interracial children adopted by advantaged white families. It has been a focus for controversy in the debate over race and intelligence.
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, a study on whether non-white children adopted by white families gained an IQ advantage.
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Multiracial
The term multiracial people refers to people who are mixed with two or more
races (human categorization), races and the term multi-ethnic people refers to people who are of more than one ethnicity, ethnicities. A variety of terms have been used ...
, people with an identifiable heritage from more than a single racial group
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Ethnic plastic surgery
Ethnic plastic surgery, or ethnic modification, refers to the types of plastic surgery performed frequently due to certain racial or ethnic traits, or with the intention of making one's appearance more similar or less similar to people of a parti ...
, changing an individual's appearance to look more or less like a particular race or ethnicity
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Hypatia transracialism controversy
The feminist philosophy journal ''Hypatia (journal), Hypatia'' became involved in a dispute in April 2017 that led to the online shaming of one of its authors, Rebecca Tuvel, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, Te ...
, an academic debate triggered by a comparison of Caitlyn Jenner to Rachel Dolezal which suggested a rejection of biology is akin to rejecting a socially constructed racial identity
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List of interracial topics
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