Month: July 2012

  • Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree The Washington Post 2012-07-30 Krissah Thompson President Obama’s extraordinary family story gained a new layer this week as a team of genealogists found evidence that he is most likely a descendant of one of the first documented African slaves in this country.…

  • Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…

  • Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America Ancestry.com Provo, Utah 2012-07-30 Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is…

  • Halle Berry and the Resurgence of the Tragic Mulatto The Root 2011-02-22 Clay Cane The furor caused by Berry’s assertion that her daughter is black reminds us how confused Americans remain about race. Halle Berry’s recent comments in Ebony magazine have brought up the complex subject of racial identity, which still seems to confuse many…

  • A concise presentation of the manner in which many Negroes in America … have abandoned their… afiliation with Negroes

  • Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests The New York Times 2012-07-30 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not…

  • The Powhatan Remnants melungeons.com 2001 Helen Campbell Prior to the white man’s arrival in America, a chain of separate but interacting Algonquian communities thrived along the Atlantic coastline. The Indians thrived in communities from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. When warm weather arrived, the Indians used the coastline for fishing and hunting.…

  • The semantics of ‘mestizo’ GMA News Online 2012-07-12 Amanda Lago “What’s your mix?” clothing brand Bayo asked Filipina women in its heavily-lampooned ad campaign from last month. The ad drew criticism for excluding 100-percent Filipinos, and glorifying the “50-precent Filipina” instead, thereby feeding the beauty industry’s obsession with so-called mestizas. But as it turns out,…

  • Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines GMA News Online Quezon City, Philippines 2012-07-24 On Tuesday, July 24, Instituto Cervantes presents “Todos somos mestizos: A Topogenetic Atlas of the Philippines,” a forum on the genetic make-up of Filipinos all over the archipelago. The talk will be led by Filipino anthropologist Fernando Zialcita,…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…