"race-bending" meaning in English

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        "2": "genderbending"
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  "etymology_text": "From race + bending, following the pattern of genderbending.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2000 September 1, Robert S. Chang, Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State, New York, London: NYU Press, →OL, page 124",
          "text": "But while gender-bending — and for that matter, race-bending — may indeed \"do\" important political work, we must approach such performances with caution.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Alice Echols, Shaky Ground: The '60s and Its Aftershocks, New York, Chicester: Columbia University Press, →OL, page 194",
          "text": "They stress the challenge that race-bending white rockers posed to the American color line.",
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          "ref": "2012 October 2, Mark B. N. Hansen, Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, New York, Milton Park: Routledge, →OL, page 274",
          "text": "Certainly the documented prevalence of online gender- and race-bending would lend strong support to such an interpretation; […]",
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        "Playing the role of, or casting someone in the role of, someone of different race or ethnicity"
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        "(informal, often derogatory) Playing the role of, or casting someone in the role of, someone of different race or ethnicity"
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          "word": "racebending"
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  "word": "race-bending"
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  "etymology_text": "From race + bending, following the pattern of genderbending.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2000 September 1, Robert S. Chang, Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State, New York, London: NYU Press, →OL, page 124",
          "text": "But while gender-bending — and for that matter, race-bending — may indeed \"do\" important political work, we must approach such performances with caution.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Alice Echols, Shaky Ground: The '60s and Its Aftershocks, New York, Chicester: Columbia University Press, →OL, page 194",
          "text": "They stress the challenge that race-bending white rockers posed to the American color line.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012 October 2, Mark B. N. Hansen, Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media, New York, Milton Park: Routledge, →OL, page 274",
          "text": "Certainly the documented prevalence of online gender- and race-bending would lend strong support to such an interpretation; […]",
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        "(informal, often derogatory) Playing the role of, or casting someone in the role of, someone of different race or ethnicity"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "racebending"
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  ],
  "word": "race-bending"
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