1) Focus: The new melting pot Forget black, forget white. EA is what’s hot 2) Between two worlds Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people […]
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‘The L Word’: Novelty in Normalcy
If anyone gets “Showtime,” perhaps you can monitor this show to see how Jennifer Beals’s “white mulatto” character is treated. I don’t like the idea of Ossie Davis playing her […]
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Dean’s blunt talk about race
“Everybody tends to hire people like themselves.” Neither Dean nor Jackson understands that who we consider “like ourselves” changes based on different situations and where we are in certain periods […]
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Fighting Hate, Across Cultures and Generations
David Gewirtzman says, “She’s black, I’m white;” Maybe he thinks he’s just talking about physical descriptions, but the government-imposed “races” of “black” and “white” are just as dangerous as the […]
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Ira Berlin
In SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS, Berlin admits that at least 70-75 percent of the “free colored” were “mulatto” or mixed-race rather than “black.” Paul Heinegg calls these people “African Americans” even […]
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More Cyber Love
Apparently, I’m not the only one getting hate mail (here and here for examples). Margaret Cho was recently the recipient of free samples from some of the Free Republic’s finest […]
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Arab Americans and whiteness
Some Younger U.S. Arabs Reassert Ethnicity The New York Times January 11, 2004 by LYNETTE CLEMETSON CLEVELAND – Bring up ethnic identity in the Coury family and prepare to sit […]
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The Emerging Mixed Race Community
I received the following announcement from Carmen Van Kerckhove of EurasianNation: Please come to a discussion panel entitled “The Emerging Mixed Race Community” on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 in New […]
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You Don’t Sound…
My man Ron Bronson on If one more bleeping person… I talk to people sometimes before I meet them, either online or whatever. Sometimes, when I talk to folks on […]
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TMA News Links
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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