Delaware’s Invisible Indians Part 2 Edward F. Heite Although it today is taken to mean mixed black and white, the word “mulatto” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries generally applied […]
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Category: A.D. Powell
Links, summaries and snappy commentaries on news and media by author A.D. Powell.
The importance of Language
This web site emphasizes what Susanne Heine says about the importance of language. It’s also a point I’ve been trying to make for years. When you use the opposition’s vocabulary, […]
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Blacks and Latinos Try to Find Balance in Touchy New Math
It’s going to be harder to maintain the “one drop” myth when people of obvious African ancestry who DON’T call themselves “black” are becoming more public. Remember when you NEVER […]
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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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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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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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