Transracial
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when a person who is born of one race, makes the decision to become or represent themselves as another race. This is often done by persons who are [mixed] or [biracial] and can hence pass for multiple races. In more extreme circumstances, persons will change their outward appearance (through [tanning] etc.) to appear to be of one race and not another.
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Anyone whose physical makeup, emotional, racial, and/or self-expression is in conflict with current cultural [racial] [stereotypes] and racial norms, similar to [transgender] and sexual norms.
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denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of their birth race
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A person that is born one race, but can fit into multiple races through their actions. Similar to a [transethnic] except a transracial does not feel that they are suppose to come from a different ethnicity.
Famous Transracials include: Barrack Obama and Tyra Banks
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