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"?
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