Notice that she calls herself a “white black woman.” Frankly, her extremely small amount of mixed ancestry and total lack of any “mixed race experience” makes her claim to be […]
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Tag: Biracial and Multiracial
New Life for the “One Drop” Rule
New Life for the “One Drop” Rule by Stephan Thernstrom from the National Review Stephan Thernstrom is Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan […]
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One Drop Rule: Tiger as Asian Pacific American
One Drop Rule: Tiger as Asian Pacific American Is it just me? Was I seeing things? Or did an Asian Pacific American really win the Masters golf tournament last weekend? […]
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“Minority” Journalists and Multiracial Identification
Minority Journalists Join Voices at Unity Convention By Darryl Fears The Washington Post Panels will explore topics such as whether American media have covered events in the Middle East accurately, […]
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Tri-Racial Isolates
From Melungeon-L Archives: In 1957, Calvin L. Beale published “American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and Pertinence to Genetic Research.: With his kind permission, this article is posted at the MHA […]
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Ukraine star seeks African roots
Ukraine star seeks African roots BBC News Olga Betko from the BBC World Service writes about travelling to Nigeria with Ukraine’s famous television presenter Myroslav Kuvaldin in search of his […]
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Jews as Multiracial Whites
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Brando’s Jews July 9, 2004 The Forward is a major Jewish newspaper in New York City The death of Marlon Brando last week revived painful memories of the […]
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An African view of Obama
OBAMA: AN AUDACITY OF HOPE? Nigeriaworld by Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Congress woman, recently visited the White House with a congressional delegation. Making her way out, she […]
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An Appeal Beyond Race
An Appeal Beyond Race The New York Times August 1, 2004 By SCOTT L. MALCOMSON ON Tuesday, at about 9 p.m., Barack Obama was an Illinois state legislator running for […]
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Barack Obama
The new face of the Democratic Party — and America Barack Obama has come to graceful terms with his mixed-race heritage. Now, as he runs for the U.S. Senate in […]
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