Americans classified in racial terms as black are expected to identify as simply "black" or as of African descent, even if they know they have ancestors of specific African and other ethnicities. This practice reinforces

a. racial purification.
b. ethnic renewal.
c. selective forgetting.
d. rationalization.


c

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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