"White adjacent"

Cream, ecru, eggshell, ivory....

The pig who killed Trayvon?

I see this term used in reference to a persob's race or ethnicity on threads such as when referring to a celeb's race.

indeed

i teach and the youngest generation is turning out more and more mixed - Asian/Latino African-American/Asian - any and all combos. clunky terms like this may be on the rise.

So it's like high yellow?

Sooner than people think, the boundaries of whiteness will be expanded to include virtually anyone who isn't black.

For example, more and more very white-looking Latinos are claiming a white identity.

There was a very interesting book on the topic that was released a few years back.

Still not good enough to be in Tri Delt!

[quote]For example, more and more very white-looking Latinos are claiming a white identity.

You're joking right? Young Latinos would rather claim anything other than being pocho (white). White=old, tired, racist.

Sooner than you think, so many people will be of mixed race that the racists will just give up.

"White adjacent"

It's how we want to be viewed by our target audience. But the truth is that we have only a big toe in the 'hood' for street cred while we maintain our full access to farmer's markets and film festivals.

It sounds like some bullshit realtor sales-speak to make a property seem more attractive. A house that's in the ghetto but on the edge of a white area.

R11 Well, of course it started with Realtor-speak when they would show listings as "Beverly Hills-adjacent," for example, when the house was actually in Van Nuys, or something.

"...the boundaries of whiteness will be expanded to include virtually anyone who isn't black. For example, more and more very white-looking Latinos are claiming a white identity."

FYI some Latinos ARE white; they have significant European ancestry, and light skin, hair, and/or eyes.

"Latino" is a linguistic/national designation, it doesn't actually tell you a person's race.

I know someone from Columbia. His ancestors are all Spanish. He definitely, and appropriately, identifies as having European ancestry (= white).

Who are some celebrity examples of white adjacent?

[quote]Sooner than you think, so many people will be of mixed race that the racists will just give up.

pretty much

[quote]I know someone from Columbia.

i Know someone from YALE!

Some examples of white adjacent

Rashida Jones

Lolo Jones

Kris Humpfries

Wentworth Miller

Andy Garcia

Jessica Alba

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

William Levy

Racists won't give up, R9, they'll just do what they've always done and redefine 'white' culture, much in the same way that Irish and Italians weren't considered fully white when they first emigrated to America in significant numbers.

William F. Buckley might have been the whitest person of the 20th century, yet he was Irish Catholic. That would have been unthinkable had he been born a few decades before.

It means the neighbor is white, as in This house is white adjacent.

R8 Google "Facundo", if you want to see a White Mexican. Giselle Bundchen-Brady, Ronaldo and Messi are as "Latino" as the naco oafs you mention. Moreso, as they actually speak Iberic languages, unlike the word-salad US "latinos" (entre doble comillas) spew.

Imagine millions from Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas illegally parking their asses in Quebec, then demanding respect for their "ethnic culture and identity" - NASCAR and fried food. That's exactly what R8 ("I've seen "El Norte" and have class rnvy") is championing.

Anglos cretinos y payasos...

All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.

Culver City

R8 is right.

r8 is wrong. Shockingly wrong.

Most Latinos are white. Technically they are a mix of white and native Indian, to various degrees; and Indians are Asian. But they have intermixed with whites so much in past centuries that most are considered white. (An exception being Dominicans, where Latinos mixed with blacks more, so they are considered black).

More celebrity examples please. Fank you.

This is Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director. He was born and raised in Mexico, Spanish is his native tongue, but he makes films in Spanish and English, in Europe and the US.

And he's white enough to pass unnoticed in small town Minnesota.

So, several of you have named whites, but I still don't know who is "white adjacent".

More importantly, what is "gay-adjacent"?

R26, the world neither perceives or places such great importance on race anywhere near the level Americans do. Your extremely limiting categories of white and black don't quite work in the part of the world you're speaking about.

Anyway, to answer the OP's question I honestly thought it had something to do with paint.

R28 - what world do you live in?

"And he's white enough to pass unnoticed in small town Minnesota"

And fat enough too. If he were thin, he'd probably stand out as much as Idris Elba walking into town at noon.

R31, plenty of other places in the world have racist racial problems.

Also, does the name "Mandela" ring any bells?

[quote]"And he's white enough to pass unnoticed in small town Minnesota"

[quote]And fat enough too.

Little houses! All of them!

More examples please.

Bump.

[quote]All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.

"What we need is a great big melting pot..." It too bad the lyrics are so non-PC in 2013. That song deserves a modern cover.

BLUE MINK - Melting Pot

Bumpers.

Mariah Carey, The Jonas Brothers, Keanu Reeves, Jessica Alba, Wentworth Miller, Jennifer Lopez, Rahida Jones, Kris Humphries, Freddy Prinze Jr, Gisele Bundchen, Ricky Martin, Jack Johnson, Zayn Malik, ... all white.

Halle Berry, Barack Obama, Shemar Moore, Kidada Jones (Rashida's sister sharing both biological parents), Ashton Eaton, Boris Kodjoe, Rick Fox, Tracy Ellis-Ross, Lenny Kravitz, Zoe Saldana, Corbin Bleu, Amber Rose, Drake, Tony Parker (despite himself), Lisa Bonet, Jason Kidd are black.

Most Arabs are white: King Abdullah, Bashar Al Asaad, Mohamed Al Fayed, Zidane, Zayn Malik, Casey Kesam, Donna Shalala, Bill Shaheen, Tony Shalhoub, John Abizaid, Steve Jobs, Hoda Kotb, Shannon Elizabeth, Ralph Nader, Paula Abdul, Paul Anka, Frank Zappa, Kathy Najimy, Hala Gorani, Arwa Damon, John Sununu, John Zogby, Wendie Malick, Hedi Slimane are all white.

People keep on mentioning who is white and who is black. What I want to know is who are the so-called "white adjacent" people, i.e., the subject of this thread?

The Kardashians are white adjacent.

r41

I have pondered your question for some time. I think that Mariah Carey is about as "white adjacent" as a person can be.

As for the definition of "white adjacent"... Mariah's father is black. I remember seeing Mariah on "Amateur Night at the Apollo", when she was an unknown, and thinking "How did this white girl get on the show?"

Guidos with those yucky spray tans, are they white adjacent?

r44

They are "orange adjacent" or "Oompa Loompa adjacent".

Got it

Bump.

Mariah's father was Venezuelan/African mix, so she's not as black as she trumpets. Her mother is pure white, Mariah is more white than person-of-colored, and she can equally trumpet her Latino card but she chooses her black card instead. J Lo probably threatened Mariah to keep her big white mouth shut in order to be the biggest Latino superstar.

The Kardashians, according to another thread.

I saw Freddie Smith described as this on another thread. What does it mean?

Snooki is alpaca adjacent.

Is this a DL-only term like cak or graxy?

Nah, I see it on Tumblr and Twitter every once in a while. (See link.)

It basically means someone who is not technically white, but who identifies as white because they look white, or who others often assume are white because of their appearance.

Think George Zimmerman, Rashida Jones, Jessica Alba.

I've always seen it to refer to some Asians, those who are affluent, move in mostly white circles, and are only distinguishable from their neighbors and schoolmates by their race. They have all the white privileges without being white.

I guess it means white people with a little bit of "flavor" mixed in so they aren't "white-white". White people with dark, swarthy features.

But I guess it could also mean minorities who have very European features. For instance Halle Berry or Vin Diesel.

"They have all the white privileges without being white. "

That's not race privilege you're describing, it's class privilege.

And money privilege.

It's current term for what had been known for decades as Mulatto.

Not as used on DL, R57.

Isn't it a place ripe for gentrification, sending the scabrous hordes off to the next neighborhood to destroy and make fit for updoing?

[all posts by tedious, racist idiot removed.]

It doesn't refer to blacks but rather to what used to be called "ethnics", i.e., non-Anglo Saxons, non-Nordics, non-Germanics, non-Celtics.

So, people like GOOP then?

Precisely.

Luke Pasqualino

Term used by immediate neighbors of Betty White when trying to impress their visiting relatives from Omaha.

Really.

Bump.

Bumpers

A black guy with a small dick.

r2

No that would be Martin himself. That's like the Japs who started the fight with America and are still bitching about getting their asses whooped.

Bump

The Bronx

This was right next to the thread with the White House photo. I thought you meant "White House adjacent".

R14 I know people from both Guatemala, Argentina, and Mexico who have European ancestry and they said how most people-especially young SJW types, are clueless about how there are people of all ancestries in various central and South American countries.