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Topic: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. |
kpauljohnson
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Views: 552
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Sat 17 Oct 2009 20:41 Subject: "I'm not an X, but..." |
I read that one in the paper today. Pity. To bad he can't do some time..
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way,"
Gee, how many times have I heard varia ... |
Topic: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 11
Views: 552
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Sat 17 Oct 2009 02:16 Subject: Re: Bill Burton, WH Deputy Press Secretary, weighs in |
From seeing him on TV I had wondered about his ethnicity, thinking he could be MGM or first generation biracial; this article answers that question.
How so? The linked-to article (about the White Hou ... |
Topic: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 11
Views: 552
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Sat 17 Oct 2009 00:54 Subject: Bill Burton, WH Deputy Press Secretary, weighs in |
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/white-house-weighs-in-on-justice-who-wont-marry-interracial-couples.php?ref=fpb
From seeing him on TV I had wondered about his ethnicity, thinking h ... |
Topic: 23andme results and comments |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 0
Views: 251
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Wed 14 Oct 2009 19:17 Subject: 23andme results and comments |
| Several months back the question was raised about various autosomal tests. I just got results from the fifth such test I've taken, but as with the previous ones they raise as many or more questions t ... |
Topic: Madonna booed in Bucharest for defending Gypsies |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 12
Views: 930
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Forum: International Stories Posted: Thu 01 Oct 2009 21:40 Subject: Discrimination in Europe, invisibility in America |
[quote="Dragon Horse"][quote] BBC NEWS
Race row wounds 'Czech Pop Idol'
The success of Romany contestants in the Czech version of Pop Idol has been marred by racism as the contest nears ... |
Topic: Ethnicity, vol. 6, the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 0
Views: 51
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Forum: Books of Interest Posted: Thu 24 Sep 2009 19:02 Subject: Ethnicity, vol. 6, the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
Celeste Ray, editor
University of North Carolina Press, 2007
One of the most important books of recent years for students of ethnicity in the U.S. South has thus far gone unnoticed, to the best of ... |
Topic: Civility rules in the Political Advocacy Fora |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 18
Views: 554
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Forum: Site Management Posted: Wed 23 Sep 2009 14:01 Subject: Incivility in discussion of Obama |
| Dean wrote:"Perhaps that's the difference between our "cultures" if you will, I don't know. Well if I impugn the sources you rely on, I can come up with evidence as to why I do, usually ... |
Topic: A Southerner Learns About Race [Brewton Berry, 1942] |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 0
Views: 345
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Sun 20 Sep 2009 00:37 Subject: A Southerner Learns About Race [Brewton Berry, 1942] |
| Having become interested in Berry thanks to his Almost White (1963) I have ordered a couple of his other books and the last, Odds and Ends (1990, when the author was 89 years old) arrived today. It's ... |
Topic: Civility rules in the Political Advocacy Fora |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 18
Views: 554
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Forum: Site Management Posted: Sat 19 Sep 2009 12:08 Subject: Re: Civility rules in the Political Advocacy Fora |
| "I take it this is aimed at me".....Actually you intervened in my defense when I was greeted with a shitstorm of abuse immediately upon my arrival from one individual who targeted me as an E ... |
Topic: Civility rules in the Political Advocacy Fora |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 18
Views: 554
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Forum: Site Management Posted: Fri 18 Sep 2009 02:11 Subject: Civility rules in the Political Advocacy Fora |
| Despite being a once and future Backintyme author, intensely interested in the topics discussed here, I've been almost entirely absent from the whole site because of the incivility in the political ad ... |
Topic: Dowd on Teabaggers |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 32
Views: 958
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Forum: Improving U.S. Society Posted: Fri 18 Sep 2009 01:27 Subject: Another straw man |
| Matt quoted me: "And as a lifelong Southerner, I don't just agree with Carter about this, I KNOW he speaks the truth." But got completely wrong just what it was that I agreed with in the ab ... |
Topic: Dowd on Teabaggers |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 32
Views: 958
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Forum: Improving U.S. Society Posted: Fri 18 Sep 2009 00:14 Subject: The disagreement is based on (deliberate?) misunderstanding |
Carter was accused of saying, paraphrased as saying "that he believes race is at the core of much of the opposition to President Obama." But the
following quote immediately gives the lie t ... |
Topic: The left is crazy to insult white Southerners as a group |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 21
Views: 772
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Forum: Improving U.S. Society Posted: Thu 17 Sep 2009 09:15 Subject: "The left" is an abstract and tendentious category |
| The title of this thread is self-defeating. Whatever distribution of political views we find along whatever left-right continuum we contruct, "the left" is just as much an abstraction as &q ... |
Topic: 17/18 century mulattoes really indians? |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 10
Views: 1338
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Forum: History of the U.S. Color Line Posted: Fri 24 Jul 2009 23:04 Subject: Outstand material worthy of book publication |
| The Weslater book on Nanticokes/Moors is excellent but several decades old. The Heites' articles put the Delaware racially ambiguous communities in context of the same phenomenon across the upper Sou ... |
Topic: 13th MHA Union Nurtures Scholarship and Fellowship |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 3
Views: 711
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009 18:14 Subject: Marvin and Carol's pics |
| Dear Frank-- A correction. Marvin is a professional photographer and took over 200 photos of the Union. After I got a CD of them, I emailed some to individuals depicted therein. But if Marvin didn ... |
Topic: East Asian genetics?? |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 4
Views: 3258
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Thu 12 Feb 2009 16:46 Subject: East Asian and South Asian |
| After visiting the mixed race community described in my post on the biracial issues forum, I started to wonder about another possible source of East Asian DNA. Several East Indians indentured themsel ... |
Topic: The Winton Triangle: Free Colored Landowners since 1740 |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 0
Views: 524
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Forum: Issues for Biracial Americans Posted: Wed 11 Feb 2009 23:12 Subject: The Winton Triangle: Free Colored Landowners since 1740 |
I wasn't sure which forum was right for this post, but want to alert folks to a new website:
www.chowandiscovery.com
created by Marvin T. Jones, historian of a mixed race community in Hertford Count ... |
Topic: AncestrybyDNA2.5 or Tribes?? |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 12
Views: 2450
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008 16:34 Subject: Re: Sorry, but I've got more questions. |
Is it the case that EA and NA tend to show up as similar or confused across most services?
PJ: The only one I know of is AncestrybyDNA, which I think is marketed under different names but is the s ... |
Topic: AncestrybyDNA2.5 or Tribes?? |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 12
Views: 2450
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Forum: Molecular Anthropology and Genetics Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008 01:22 Subject: 23andme sounds like a good deal |
Hi,
I had never heard of this company until reading about it in this thread. But if you want Y and mt DNA testing as well as autosomal, that will be $240+ $219+$219 at DNAPrint, or $678. Versus $ ... |
Topic: THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO |
kpauljohnson
Replies: 7
Views: 1864
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Forum: Books of Interest Posted: Thu 20 Nov 2008 21:09 Subject: It just won a National Book Award |
| http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aGviidn8h5yk&refer=home |
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