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* Deconstructed in Philip Roth's ''The Human Stain''. Professor Coleman Silk's long and distinguished tenure is brought to sudden ruin when he is accused of making a racist comment about two black students. Coleman is the only person who can really appreciate the awful irony of this accusation, because he is a light-skinned black man who spent his entire adult life pretending he was white, going so far as to disown his family so that they don't exist as a fact of his past others could discover. Since the accusation was perpetrated from within the Athena faculty by his personal enemies, if they knew the truth about his race, they would almost certainly believe him to be a Boomerang Bigot instead of the straightforward variety they accused him of being.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** Played briefly as a gag in ''[[Men
{{quote|'''Detritus:''' You can't trust 'em.
'''Skully:''' Who?
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