The Study of Racialism

Salsassin · SuperWizard Joined: 04 Apr 2005 {Posts: 3515 }

I was talking about two first gens mixing versus two multigens mixing.

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Salsassin · SuperWizard Joined: 04 Apr 2005 {Posts: 3515 }

That is how I understood it.

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mymulatto · Experienced User Joined: 06 Jul 2005 {Posts: 137 }

Light-Skinned Black looks vs biracial looks you people trying to say there are people who are dark skinned in a lighter body,there no such thing as a light skinned black anywhy how can you be light skinned in a dark body?

Salsassin · SuperWizard Joined: 04 Apr 2005 {Posts: 3515 }

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Well technically if you feed the bull spare change,you might get two cents.

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BlackHaze · Experienced User Joined: 29 Dec 2004 {Posts: 114 }

The person who made this thread doesn't seem to understand that phenotype and ancestry are two different things. I think a significant, not all, but a significant number of African Americans have distant white ancestry. Therefore, some black people already carry the recessive european alleles responsible for light skin. To my understanding, an allele can either dissappear over time or it can propagate for generations until its blended with another person that also carries that same allele. When this happens, two predominately black parents will occasionally have offspring with visible european traits-such as light skin.

While a black person who looks like Tisha Campbell would have to have at least one white ancestor on both sides of her family, you can't always assume that a person has equal black and white ancestry just because they appear to. The people we refer to as light skinned blacks are not multigenerationally mixed, they're people who are born into predominately black families and by random chance, happened to inherit those traits.

I recently watched a program on the science channel on human variation. It featured a 'coloured' woman from South Africa who was born to two white parents. They discovered both of the white parents had distant african genes that were passed on to their children but the mixed race phenotype only reappeared in one of them. I find this to be an interesting phenomenon and that's what brought me back to this forum. I need to know if there are any studies on African admixture in white americans? And is there a proper, scientific term for this phenomenon?

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zsana · Moderator Joined: 05 Feb 2005 {Posts: 1032 }

BlackHaze wrote:

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zsana · Moderator Joined: 05 Feb 2005 {Posts: 1032 }

G-Man wrote:

sagascend · Moderator-at-Large Joined: 17 Jun 2006 {Posts: 2418 }

You're not the only one, Zsana. I felt the same way when I found out Boris Kodjoe was biracial, and German to boot. He looks a lot like my dad(in his younger days Laughing

), whose 3/4 grandparents were MGM, and one was a FGM (meaning he had one European White parent; I thought he was a White man until I was set straight by my grandma). He didn't look any more likely to have a White parent than I do, IMO, which goes to show you how distorted our personal perceptions can be.

I also have a friend whose mother is German Jewish and whose father was Nigerian. He is darkskinned with aquiline features, like a stereotypical Ethiopian. I have never seen his father but I'd bet my friend looks like a 50-50 mix of his parents. Maybe the American eye is skewed when it comes to biracial/FGM people outside of the U.S.