Some Younger US Arabs Reassert Ethnicity The New York Times by Lynette Clemetson January 11, 2004 Surprises in the Family Tree The New York Times by Mitchell Owens January 8, […]
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Category: News Clips
Relevant links to news of interest to the multiracial, interracial and transracial adoptee community.
Creole
Cajuns won’t admit that they are not as “black blood-free” as they would like to believe http://www.cajunculture.com/Other/creole.htm Always a controversial and confusing term, the word Creole, to put it simply, […]
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Talking Trash
Talking Trash by Charley Reese Let us now talk about the politically incorrect term “trash,” as in white trash, black trash, brown trash, red trash and, for all I know, […]
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Racial Identity in Balance
This author doesn’t realize that the “diversity” industry she admires cannot accept her family’s multiracial identity because it is based on the myth that everyone in the U.S. can easily […]
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Surprises in the Family Tree
Mitchell Owens writing for the New York Times on Surprises in the Family Tree: JOHN ARCHER first appears in Northampton County, Va., in the mid-17th century. He started a family […]
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More on Multiracial-descended whites who embrace “one drop”
http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/section3/usa_sharing_pain/ Family Secrets, produced by Alice Pifer for ABCs 20/20, follows Simms on a trail back into her shrouded – and painful – past. Early on Simms, perceptibly a 30-ish […]
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Steve Sailer’s “Race” Agenda
Steve Sailer has dedicated himself to proving that “race” really exists. Sometimes he will sound quite reasonable in his critiques of political correctness, but his attack on George Will for […]
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Twisted history
Twisted history by Thomas Sowell TownHall.com December 17, 2003 One of the reasons our children do not measure up academically to children in other countries is that so much time […]
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Selling Beauty Queens and Fairness Creams
Selling Beauty Queens and Fairness Creams By Priya Lal, PopMatters January 2, 2004 Their huge, glowing faces smile down from billboards on the mere mortal residents of big cities like […]
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Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short
Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short Newsday November 11, 2003 by Katti Gray Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a […]
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