Mulatto harkens back to invidious caste distinctions serving
exploitative purposes. This was developed to a high art in
Louisiana, among other places ("quadroon," "octoroon").On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:57 AM, raghu wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:52 AM, ken hanly <[email protected]> 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. > > > > > > > > The one drop rule? > > When is the last time anyone in the U.S. used the word "mulatto"? > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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