A discarded term!? I guess Bill Kemp has never visited this blog. I’m grateful for this little piece of our history.
Booker T. Washington Home offered safe haven for black children
By Bill Kemp Archivist/librarian McLean County Museum of History | Posted: Saturday, December 12, 2009
For much of the 20th century, Bloomington-Normal residents thought it necessary to [...]
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segregated orphans
Posted in biracial, civil rights, equality, history, race, tagged biracial, booker t. washington, civil rights, mulatto, orphanage, race, segregation on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree
Posted in biracial, civil rights, history, race, tagged american history, civil rights, gay rights, harriet tubman, kkk, martin luther king jr, mixed race, mulatto, race, racism on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank God! This is such an amazing story. I’m so fascinated. Not only by the bravery of a little white girl who crossed KKK, but also the shades of “mulatto” history sprinkled throughout. Coon-hunting based on the supposed threat that black males posed to white women. The “black” member of the Klan. Passing. Male chauvinism. [...]
instead of being a white man (he) is a mulatto
Posted in biracial, civil rights, history, race, tagged civil war, digital library on american slavery, race and slavery petitions, runaway slaves, slavery, united states history on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web Site Tells Forgotten Tales of Slavery
By Dan Nonte and Lanita Withers Goins, University Relations
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The 1860 U.S. Census registered the names of slave owners and the age, gender and color of slaves. But there, as in much of the historical record, slaves are nameless.
UNCG’s new Digital Library on American Slavery provides the names of more [...]
speaking of adoption
Posted in biracial, civil rights, equality, history, photos, race, tagged mary c. thorne, wilbur h. siebert on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m not happy to be posting something connected to Ohio State University, BUT I’d never heard of an adoption like this one and I found it rather interesting, so pardon me fellow Wolverines…
Mary C. Thorne and Family
This is a portrait of Mary C. Thorne of Selma, Clark County, Ohio, with her family. The woman standing [...]
a reunion
Posted in biracial, tagged adoption, biracial, transracial adoption on December 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Siblings cherish long-awaited reunion with birth mother on Thanksgiving
By Cheryll A. Borgaard
For Helen Ford, finding her birth mother four months ago was “exciting, but scary.”
“I was nervous, but I also had a feeling of happiness,” Ford, 54, said Monday. “If you’ve been the product of adoption, you have some questions, but it felt good. You [...]
congrats, maya rudolph
Posted in biracial, celebrities, quotes, tagged babies, biracial, maya rudolph, mixed race, paul thomas anderson on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maya Rudolph Welcomes a Girl
by Sarah Michaud
After playing pregnant in this summer’s Away We Go, Maya Rudolph has welcomed a real-life bundle of joy: her second child with director Paul Thomas Anderson.
Maya Rudolph and Paul T. Anderson
The couple’s daughter, Lucille, was born Nov. 6 in Los Angeles, the Saturday Night Live alum’s rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Lucille joins [...]
fair and good features….on the dark half
Posted in biracial, history, nature, race, tagged biracial, circus freaks, kaadaa, mixed race on December 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Good Lord!!
San Jose Mercury Evening News, November 30, 1887. Here’s the “tragic mulatto” principle taken to extremes by cruel Nature. Or then again, maybe circus life would have offered more to this kid than whatever hardscrabble misery awaited him in post-Redemption Florida. If only we had a name other than “it” for the child in [...]
re: willing to accept
Posted in biracial, race, tagged adoption, biracial, mixed race, race, transracial adoption on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another article that references the perils of placing biracial babies in adoptive homes. Is adoptive a word? Anyway, this just reinforces my strong desire to adopt a brood of biracial kids. I guess it’s not going to be that difficult once I’m ready. Getting ready is the difficult part.
Adoption fulfills dream of blended family [...]
google a stereotype
Posted in biracial, race, tagged google, google searches, mixed race, racial profiling, racial stereotypes, stereotypes on December 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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i don’t know how to copy and paste a google search, but of course i did my own and here’s the short list that came up…
why are mixed people so pretty
why are mixed race people called black
why are mixed people called black
why are mixed race people so beautiful
no difference between them
Posted in biracial, books, photos, race, tagged books, heidi durrow, interracial couples, interracial marriage, interracial relationships, no difference between them, photography, robert kalman on November 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Here’s a new book full of beautiful black and white portraits of interracial couples! The foreward is written by one of my favorite mixed chicks, Heidi Durrow. The photos are stunning. Thank you, Robert Kalman, for this wonderful book that will no doubt help us break our subconscious instinct to assume that these people do [...]
