These writers refer to Essie Mae Washington Williams as “mixed race” as opposed to “black.” It was our movement that gave them a vocabulary to use and permission to use […]
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Author: A.D. Powell
Louisiana Creoles: White by Definition
This is still the best overall book on Louisiana Creoles. Dominguez is reasonably objective without an ax to grind. She also points out the tremendous psychological pressures that Creoles endure […]
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Test Suggests Black Man Is Really White
What makes the battle against “one drop” so frustrating is the fact that each author seems free to change the “rules.” In this article, we are told that the guy […]
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What “passes” for scholarship in Academia: Attacks on IV and the movement
References to INTERRACIAL VOICE New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century by PhD Herman L. DeBose See Rainer Spencer’s biased essay and personal attacks on […]
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Richard Rodriguez.(Interview)and the “light” v. “dark” issue
Hispanics and non-Hispanics of mixed ancestry have so damned much in common, but academia and the media are determined to ignore the obvious. “I don’t think I exist”: interview with […]
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African Studies and Liberal Guilt
Why I gave up African studies by Gavin Kitching University of New South Whales, Sydney This fact is, to put it simply, that the most damaging legacy of colonialism and […]
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black Hardcover: 592 pages, Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows; (September 2003) ISBN: 1568582587 You can […]
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Test Suggests Black Man Is Really White
Race Reversal: Man Lives as Black for 50 Years Then Finds Out He’s Probably Not By Jim Wooten ABCNEWS.com Dec. 28 Wayne Joseph, the principal of a big suburban high […]
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What Made Sammy Run?
What Made Sammy Run? December 28, 2003 The New York Times By GARY GIDDINS Is it possible for an entertainer who achieved the pinnacles of success — wealth, fame, power, […]
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STROM THURMOND: Daughter’s silence slowed America’s racial reckoning
STROM THURMOND: Daughter’s silence slowed America’s racial reckoning ROBERT STEINBACK The Miami Herald Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, has earned the favorable verdict of the court of public opinion for the […]
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