All 5 Uses

authenticity
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A Hope in the Unseen
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In this crowd of assimilated, careerist black and Hispanic kids, it is he, Cedric-king of the Ballou nerds, bottom of the Southeast D.C. pecking order-who can claim a particular brand of racial authenticity.†
Chpt 4 *
A cheeseburger with fries is slid before her, a breaded catfish with salad before him, and she lets the issue of spiritual authenticity lie, at least for now.†
Chpt 11
But, like so many "black" films of this era, the movie is full of code about dilemmas du jour over race and class, with Martin's down-to-earth, devil-may-care, ghetto scoundrel getting the stamp of black authenticity to highlight how Lynn Whitfield, with her college degrees, corporate status, flawless diction, and foolish desire for monogamous love, has really succeeded only in losing touch with her true black soul.†
Chpt 13
A few blocks from the dorm, Chiniqua mentions another recent movie, Waiting to Exhale, which deals a litde more subtly with some of the same race/class/ authenticity issues.†
Chpt 13
The multicultural miasma, with its fixation on group identity and loyalty and authenticity, still unsettles him, though not quite as much as when he arrived last fall.†
Chpt 13

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