race-bending

See also: racebending

English

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Etymology

From race + bending, following the pattern of genderbending.

Noun

race-bending (uncountable)

  1. (informal, often derogatory) Playing the role of, or casting someone in the role of, someone of different race or ethnicity
    • 2000 September 1, Chang, Robert S., Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State, New York; London: NYU Press, →ISBN, OL 8044700M, page 124:
      But while gender-bending — and for that matter, race-bending — may indeed "do" important political work, we must approach such performances with caution.
    • 2002, Echols, Alice, Shaky Ground: The '60s and Its Aftershocks, New York; Chicester: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, OL 3950187M, page 194:
      They stress the challenge that race-bending white rockers posed to the American color line.
    • 2012 October 2, Hansen, Mark B. N., Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, New York; Milton Park: Routledge, →ISBN, OL 25419984M, page 274:
      Certainly the documented prevalence of online gender- and race-bending would lend strong support to such an interpretation; []
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:racebending.

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