On 3/14/12 10:52 AM, ken hanly wrote: > Obama is in fact a mulatto. I have never seen him identified as such. If > race comes up at all Obama gets classified as African-American. Is there > a stigma to being mulatto or what. He is never called a Caucasian > American even though that seems as appropriate as African American. >
There is not stigma to being of mixed ancestry but there is a stigma to the term "mulatto". There was a Larry David episode about him using the term among a group of Black folks who gave him hell. He did for comic effect, however. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
