On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM, ken hanly <[email protected]> wrote: > However the point can be made with other descriptions such as mixed-race or > whatever you want. I just thought of mulatto as a descriptive term > designating someone with one black parent and one white parent since Obama > has a white mother and black father. Why is he identified as an African > American? This shows something significant as to the way race is perceived > in the U.S. The one drop rule as one comment put it.
It has been argued (Stanley Elkins) that the slave culture in the Southern States uniquely among the different slave cultures in the Americas (i.e. unlike Brazil, Cuba etc) required a very unambiguous, sharp and absolute boundary between black and white, slave and free. Hence the one drop rule. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
