On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Max Sawicky wrote:
> Mulatto harkens back to invidious caste distinctions serving
> exploitative purposes. This was developed to a high art in
> Louisiana, among other places ("quadroon," "octoroon").
When I took a course on Faulkner in college back in the early 70s, Cleanth
Brooks (b. 1906) regularly used those words as if they were still alive in his
mind.
Doug
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