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15. Here is the book I was talking about.

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Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:55 PM

Mar 2016

This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was honored in 1992 as an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is Black? has become a staple in college classrooms throughout the United States, helping students understand this nation’s history of miscegenation and the role that the "one-drop rule" has played in it. In this special anniversary edition, the author brings the story up to date in an epilogue. There he highlights some revealing responses to Who Is Black? and examines recent challenges to the one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and a significant change in the census classification of racial and ethnic groups.

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Is-Black-Nations-Definition/dp/0271021721

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What, or who, is Black? [View all] TreasonousBastard Mar 2016 OP

The Dominant Culture JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #1

What race do you think Larry Wilmore is? La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2016 #2

My mulatto Jewish Jamaican grandfather emigrated riderinthestorm Mar 2016 #6

I think Wilmore is who he wants to be... TreasonousBastard Mar 2016 #8

Nowadays, that DNA can tell you pretty much, within a fairly tight region, of where you come from. MADem Mar 2016 #19

I found this article interesting yesphan Mar 2016 #3

Differs from the US JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #4

Not just Brazil, but the Spanish conquistadors were also... TreasonousBastard Mar 2016 #10

Schtupping or raping? JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #13

Black is an imposed social identity, not a color. .. kwassa Mar 2016 #5

I've known about the "one drop rule" for years... TreasonousBastard Mar 2016 #7

Where do people make a choice? JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #9

Sometimes, you just have to make a choice... TreasonousBastard Mar 2016 #11

In my case - my choice JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #12

This is so interesting to me because I never had a choice to make Quayblue Mar 2016 #16

Compassion for her JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #17

I think it's "ethnic pride" owing to cultural touchstones. It's not foisted--it's clutched. MADem Mar 2016 #20

Yet in the Calabrese immigrant community JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #21

My Bi Racial GrandMother NOLALady Mar 2016 #14

Here is the book I was talking about. kwassa Mar 2016 #15

You might want to check out "Young Larry" and see if you can tell what race he is.... MADem Mar 2016 #18