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New York Times Magazine contributing writer Williams (Losing My Cool) probes his own experiences and ponders the future of his biracial daughter, Marlow, to explore dimensions of personal and group identity. He excoriates the social construction of "race," illustrating its illusions by parsing what he considers to be an anachronistic and fading lexicon that the black-white conceptual binary of the one-drop rule has imposed. The essentialism of groups such a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More