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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Category: A.D. Powell
Links, summaries and snappy commentaries on news and media by author A.D. Powell.
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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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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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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