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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Category: A Mixed Blog
Category listings of blog entries. Approximately 1200 blog entries and 500 comments from the old "A Mixed Blog" are in the process of being converted and imported to this section. Stay tuned – the archives will eventually be complete!
One-Dropping All Over
Apparently some angry one-droppers have taken notice of A Mixed Blog. Can’t please everyone and we aren’t gonna try. The S-Train Canvass will just have to build a bridge and […]
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Progress on the FOIA Lawsuit
Our two year old lawsuit against the Department of Justice’s secret detentions got a little press today in The Washington Post: …the court will look at an appeal by the […]
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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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Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short
Katti Gray, writing for Newsday, on “Blood as a Yardstick, and a Film That Falls Short” (November 11, 2003): Forced or consensual, race-mixing is complicated stuff. The miscasting of Anthony Hopkins, a white actor of […]
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Time Warped
Time Warped American Daily by Jonathan Pait The recent revelation of Essie Mae Washington-Williams that she is the daughter of the late Senator Strom Thrumond of South Carolina has caught […]
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City to hire 6 rejected white firefighters
City to hire 6 rejected white firefighters Hiring follows challenge to affirmative action plan By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | January 3, 2004 The Boston Fire Department has agreed to […]
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Thurmond’s Secret and Its Legacy (5 Letters)
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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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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