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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Category: A.D. Powell
Links, summaries and snappy commentaries on news and media by author A.D. Powell.
What “passes” for scholarship in Academia: Attacks on IV and the movement
References to INTERRACIAL VOICE New Faces in a Changing America: Multiracial Identity in the 21st Century by PhD Herman L. DeBose See Rainer Spencer’s biased essay and personal attacks on […]
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Richard Rodriguez.(Interview)and the “light” v. “dark” issue
Hispanics and non-Hispanics of mixed ancestry have so damned much in common, but academia and the media are determined to ignore the obvious. “I don’t think I exist”: interview with […]
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African Studies and Liberal Guilt
Why I gave up African studies by Gavin Kitching University of New South Whales, Sydney This fact is, to put it simply, that the most damaging legacy of colonialism and […]
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black Hardcover: 592 pages, Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows; (September 2003) ISBN: 1568582587 You can […]
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Test Suggests Black Man Is Really White
Race Reversal: Man Lives as Black for 50 Years Then Finds Out He’s Probably Not By Jim Wooten ABCNEWS.com Dec. 28 Wayne Joseph, the principal of a big suburban high […]
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What Made Sammy Run?
What Made Sammy Run? December 28, 2003 The New York Times By GARY GIDDINS Is it possible for an entertainer who achieved the pinnacles of success — wealth, fame, power, […]
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STROM THURMOND: Daughter’s silence slowed America’s racial reckoning
STROM THURMOND: Daughter’s silence slowed America’s racial reckoning ROBERT STEINBACK The Miami Herald Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 78, has earned the favorable verdict of the court of public opinion for the […]
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Brent Staples, Thurmond and the New York Times
Brent Staples is such a hypocrite. Most of his columns are devoted to promoting the “one drop” myth of “light-skinned blacks” and “passing for white.” He admits that blacks are […]
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Ol’ Strom and Me
Ol’ Strom and Me By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet December 15, 2003 The skeleton that rattled in the late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s closet with the revelation that he […]
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