I’ve noticed in my latest research that in the ’50s and ’60s “biracial” described committees, boards, commissions, councils, governments, mediation teams, towns, schools, and groups. Not people. People were “mulatto” and things were biracial. Actually groups of black and white people were biracial. Now we’d say interracial, I guess. It is interesting to notice the [...]
Archive for March, 2009
“biracial”
Posted in biracial, history, race, tagged biracial, mulatto on March 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
mulatto in history
Posted in biracial, history, race on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lately I’ve been perusing articles tagged ‘biracial’ and ‘mulatto’ on a research website. I’ve found some interesting stuff (not this particular photo tho). Most interesting to me in this story is the white woman/black man combo, the fact that Rose has no last name, and the description of mulattoes as ”children of such unnatural and inordinate [...]
Fmylife
Posted in random, websites, tagged fmylife.com, schadenfreude on March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My Twistori obsession has subsided and I am now fond of wasting my time at Fmylife.com. I’m still flying high from the news in yesterday’s post, so I’m not feeling particularly schadenfreude-istic right now. That being said, I still get a kick out of FML.
According to the site…
Fmylife.com contains a daily dose of short anecdotes, [...]
yippee
Posted in biracial, tagged fanshen cox, heidi durrow, mixed chicks chat, mixed roots film & literary festival, mulatto diaries on March 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s official! Mulatto Diaries: The Movie will be screened this summer at the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival! I’m so excited! It’ll be shown Saturday June 13th at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Go to www.mxroots.org for more details! If you can, make a tax deductible donation while you’re there. Then book a [...]
symmetry
Posted in biracial, race, tagged biracial, mixed, mixed race, mulatto, physical attractiveness on March 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I came across this article a while ago and have been thinking about it a lot since that “Plight of Mixed-Race Children” post a few days ago. I am generally still offended by that Freakonomics blog article, but maybe it’s a harsh reality that I don’t want to acknowledge. The study Levitt spoke of did [...]
i don’t twitter (or is it i don’t tweet on twitter?), but i am now officially obsessed with twistori!
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb.com describes the site so well…
Twistori, according to the site, is the “first step in an ongoing social experiment.” Twistori pulls tweets from Twitter containing specific keywords: i love, i hate, i think, i believe, i [...]
plight?
Posted in biracial, race, tagged freakonomics, mixed race, new york times, steven d. levitt on March 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Thanks to The Topaz Club this offensive NYTimes Freakonomics blog post (dated 8/12/08) was brought to my attention…
The Plight of Mixed-Race Children
By STEVEN D. LEVITT
What’s it like to grow up with one parent who is black and another who is white?
In a recent paper I co-authored with Roland Fryer, Lisa Kahn, and Jorg Spenkuch, we look at data to try to [...]
