[3] In her book, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery, Elizabeth Haiken devotes a chapter to "The Michael Jackson Factor" presenting "Black, Asian, and Jewish women who seek WASP noses and Playboy breasts.
In their opinion, "Patients whose desired surgical outcomes result in racial transformation should be educated about the potential risks of this objective, and these requests should generally be discouraged.
This larger class includes transsexual identity change, body art, cosmetic surgery, Munchhausen syndrome, and labiaplasty.
[7] In the South Park episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" Kyle undergoes an ethnic plastic surgery called "negroplasty" to qualify for the basketball team.
In the 2008 movie Tropic Thunder, Kirk Lazarus goes through a controversial surgery to make his skin darker to play an African-American soldier.