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  Topic: Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
kpauljohnson

Replies: 11
Views: 552

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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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