Some of this is sociological nonsense got from wikipedia--only an academic would come up with a 25% rule for mixed racial status, as if that was verifiable for most people, like AKC registered dogs or something.
However, it does point out the difference in perception across those who consider themselves white and those who consider themselves black in regards to BO (who I will soon really stop writing about as I said I would): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial#What_makes_a_person_multiracial.3F >>United States According to a recent study about one third of all white Americans, 74 million, have between 2 and 20 percent Native American and/or African admixture.[9] Distant Native American ancestry is fairly common in white Americans of certain regions of the country and usually falls short of the 25% definition of multiraciality. Increasingly, U.S. society is no longer willing to pigeon-hole multiracial people into just one race. For example, although Barack Obama self-identifies as African-American despite having a white mother, 55 percent of whites classified him as biracial instead of black after being told of his maternal descent. Blacks were less willing to acknowledge a mulitiracial category, with 66% considering him black.[10] >> I'm not sure that is such a significant difference though. Anyone out there interested in the Melungeons or the Tribe of Ishmael/Ismail? What was done to the tribe in the US parallels and pre-dates the Nazi treatment of gypsies, Jews and Slavs in Central and Eastern Europe. But the US genocide against the indigenous nations has yet to be sufficiently historicized (while the racial and eugenic treatment of Melungeon and Ishmaelites is obscure to most Americans). CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
