Acting white
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Acting white, from the epithet applied by some blacks to high achieving blacks, refers to betraying one's color by cooperating with the expectations of mainstream white society by such things as doing well academically, dressing neatly or conservatively, and refraining from blaming of whites for low black economic status.
Though not all scholars define acting white in precisely the same way, most definitions include a reference to situations where some minority adolescents ridicule their minority peers for engaging in behaviors perceived to be characteristic of whites.
