The Study of Racialism

As much as we have mixed-cast success stories like "Grey's Anatomy," the majority of acting roles shut out people of color from jobs.

Recently, the producers of the new TV show "Th ...

Sagascend's word-choice of "sensationalize" tells us much about her fear of change -- which I call honor finally coming to blending -- although Sagascend vulgarly still calls it "race-m ...

Just in this thread alone --

It is society's job to impose on the individual, a notable feature of life within a human collective. Clearly there is no fundamental immorality associated with the imp ...

What seems clear to me is, alerting America that beautiful multiracial people (fertile ones) live and breath right before their eyes, living proof of the solubility of alleged "mono-races," ...

I often wonder whether this whole debate, for some people, is more about defining particular phenotypes deemed racially ambiguous as "multiracial," which is puzzling from a scientific perspe ...

The rule is unchanged. All non-members are fair game. Nevertheless, by deliberate design, moderators have broad authority to interpret and administer the rules in each case so as to achieve the goals ...

The current rules remain unchanged. Non-members are fair game. Maya may challenge accusations of opportunism or hypocrisy leveled at non-celebrity non-members if no rationale was presented ....
I sup ...

How are we going to intelligently discuss "race" in the U.S. without discussing the racial identity of both groups and individuals?

Well, that is the problem in a nutshell. Maya is concer ...

there are plenty of examples of Powell's imposing a racial identity on others. This is a quote from Powell on Amazon.com:...
Okay. I stand corrected. I think of Powell as respecting their choice of ...

No where in my post did i claim that having african ancestry is the same as being black. You're saying that black is synonomous with african american but it's not. Black is a racial term that includes ...

.... Racial identity in the USA is still based on first and foremost "appearance".

Historically Socially Constructed Criteria for Racial Identity
Adapted from "Blackness Visible&q ...

No choice? What they are? The above starement makes sense only if Phil345 has some objective way of determining what ethnicity someone "really is" apart from their expressed choice.

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At top of this thread, back on 09 Mar 2005, I discussed my observations on an Asiaphile Forum web site. I tried to bring out several questions I thought were worth musing over. Let me here re-pos ...

the AD Powell camp and her colorist internet minions, whom would like to see the ethnically uniform afro-american group divided up into to color coded groups, making the "light" people &quo ...

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These are sad but true (according to my gut instinct) observations you've made odocoileus.

I read this as disturbing evidence of the effectiveness of the stream of "anti-racism" in ...

race catergories should not exist .. we are all humans, also I think we should be catergorized by nation not race.

I like this answer. However, at OneDropRule website we take up the challenging is ...

I honestly don't think that Connerly achieved very much here. Getting white Americans to vote in favor of something that benefits them is a no brainer.

"White" Americans in my adult memo ...

I call this article the liberal version of the old "Miscegenation just makes everything worse" canard.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i12/12b00501.htm
I think that the notion that havin ...

most Black people do know that people with one Black parent and one White/Asian parent exist
Also, people usually know that most U.S. Blacks are mixed (in the sense of having detectable European DNA ...

Natives Americans were in the Americas since 12.000 years ago, at least. They are the Natives of the land, and that marks the differency.
Above, Mr. Oevega posted a U.N. draft resolution proposing a ...