'We're Self-Interested': The Growing Identity Debate in Black America
In Hollywood, Harriet Tubman is played in a new movie by a black British woman, much to the annoyance of some black Americans. On the U.S. census, an ultrawealthy Nigerian immigrant and a struggling African American woman from the South are expected to check the same box. When many U.S. universities tout their diversity numbers, black students who were born in the Bronx, New York, and the Bahamas are counted as the same.
