Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

In 1995 Michael Jackson made a video for his song "Childhood" which is on the album History: past, present and future, book 1. Michael Jackson chose a little boy to play himself as a child for the video. The boy he chose is a white boy. who happens to be my brother in law Ryan. There are a number of things that could mean, he might see himself as a white person, or wish he was white as is commonly speculated, and he may be commenting on those speculations.

the video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVJscGa5vbc