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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Tag: Biracial and Multiracial
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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