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Month: August 2012

  • Are You Positively Sure That You Are Not Part Negro? Read This.

    Are You Positively Sure That You Are Not Part Negro? Read This. The discovery recently, that a presumably white soldier was part Negro, brought forth the following comment, as to the facts portrayed in this little volume, from Mr. John D. Barry, in a recent article of the San Francisco News:— “The case of the…

  • No feature of the race problem throughout the Americas is more important, or more insistent, than is that of racial intermixture.

    No feature of the race problem throughout the Americas is more important, or more insistent, than is that of racial intermixture. Notwithstanding its vital importance to, each of the three races primarily involved—the Indian, the Negro, and the Caucasian—there has been no persistent and no effective effort to cause these races either to understand what…

  • The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation

    The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture—the Mulatto problem—and most of his writings have had to do with this evil.

  • Daniel was puzzled. He raised his hand and asked the teacher who “colored” people were.

    [G. Reginald] Daniel, who grew up black in Kentucky, said he has been thinking about his racial identity since Dec. 2, 1955, when his first-grade teacher reported that Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to let a white passenger have her seat on the bus. “It’s time we colored people stood up for our…

  • Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White?

    Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White? The Huffington Post 2012-08-02 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University With the November election less than 100 days away, the Obama campaign continues to come up against questions about the president’s racial identity. Most recently, reports that the president is “passing,” or claiming that he’s representing…

  • Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama?

    Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama? ABC News 2008-03-21 Emily Friedman The son of a black man and a white woman, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he’s seen and heard it all.   From his grandmother’s fear of black men on the street to his former pastor’s perceived anti-American rants, Obama said Tuesday that…

  • What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected

    What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected Waller & Willets, Publishers, New York c. 1865 8 pages Source: Harvard University via The Hathi Trust Digital Library L. Seaman, LL. D. “What, is Miscegenation?” is an oft repeated inquiry. A word not recognized by Webster, Johnson, or Worcester,…

  • Mixed Messenger

    Mixed Messenger The New York Times 2008-03-23 Peggy Orenstein A few weeks ago, while stuck at the Chicago airport with my 4-year-old daughter, I struck up a conversation with a woman sitting in the gate area. After a time, she looked at my girl — who resembles my Japanese-American husband — commented on her height…

  • Mississippi Black Code (1865)

    Mississippi Black Code (1865) America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After The Civil War Digital History: using new technologies to enhance teaching and research 2011 The Civil Rights of Freedmen in Mississippi (Approved November 25, 1865) Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes…

  • Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…