Light, Bright and Damn Near White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light, Bright and Damn Near White write by Michelle Gordon Jackson. This book was released on 2014-07-03. Light, Bright and Damn Near White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 19th and 20th centuries, a powerhouse of Black American leaders emerged, consisting primarily of men and women with "an apparent mix of Caucasoid features." The face of the African warrior, brought to America centuries prior from the Ivory Coast had changed, due to perpetual miscegenation (race-mixing) and the application of the One-Drop Rule, a racial marker exclusive to the United States, in which a person was considered Black if he or she had any African ancestry. No other country in the world has historically defined race in the same manner. Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this "rule," as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders. This book features these unsung Black heroes and heroines (covering the Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights eras). Some born slaves and some born free, these men and women were on the forefront of civil rights, innovation, and social reform. Their personal contributions are woven within the very fabric of American culture and policy. The continued acceptance of the One-Drop Rule is apparent, in America's embracing of Barack Obama as the first Black President of the United States, and not the first bi-racial president, despite his mother's race (White). This informative book is about history . . . American History and African-American History.
Light, Bright, and Damned Near White
Light, Bright, and Damned Near White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light, Bright, and Damned Near White write by Stephanie R. Bird. This book was released on 2009-03-20. Light, Bright, and Damned Near White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling to be heard, recognized, and celebrated for the racial diversity one would think is the epitome of America's melting pot persona. But being biracial or tri-racial brings unique challenges - challenges including prejudice, racism and, from within racial groups, colorism. Yet America is now experiencing a multiracial baby boom, with at least three states logging more multiracial baby births than any other race aside from Caucasians. As the Columbia Journalism Review reported, American demographics are no longer black and white. In truth, they are a blended, difficult-to-define shade of brown. Bird shows us the history of biracial and tri-racial people in the United States, and in European families and events. She presents the personal traumas and victories of those who struggle for recognition and acceptance in light of their racial backgrounds, including celebrities such as golf expert Tiger Woods, who eventually quit trying to describe himself as Cablanasin, a mix including Asian and African American. Bird examines current events, including the National Mixed Race Student Conference, and the push to dub this Generation MIX. And she examines how American demographics, government, and society are changing overall as a result. This work includes a guide to tracing your own racial roots.
Creole
Creole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creole write by Sybil Kein. This book was released on 2000-08-01. Creole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and though their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature. Creole is a project that both defines and celebrates this ethnic identity. In fifteen essays, writers intimately involved with their subject explore the vibrant yet understudied culture of the Creole people across time—their language, literature, religion, art, food, music, folklore, professions, customs, and social barriers.
Light Bright and Damn Near White
Light Bright and Damn Near White - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light Bright and Damn Near White write by Edward Baken. This book was released on 2010. Light Bright and Damn Near White available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harlem in the nineteen-forties. Mystical, intriguing, challenging. Hot. It was the place to be.Blacks had money and they spent it. They had the flashiest cars, the finest suits, the most beautiful women. Harlem had what everybody wanted: a good time. There was Sugar Hill, where the entertainers, the big pimps, the actors, the writers, and every black who had money lived. Then there was Harlem, where all the clubs were: Smalls Paradise, Sugar Rays, the Red Rooster, Franks, the Apollo. There were the after hours spots, too: Mintons, Flos, Snookies. These were the places to be seen, and apretty lady was a must and she had to be white or at least light, bright and damn near white. Edward Baken and his cousin Junior were the young sons of two such women -- pretty, single, light and very much in demand. Edward and Junior could pass for eighteen year olds. When they turned thirteen, they worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the summer and made good wages. With a healthy new swagger from a pocket full of cash, they decided not to return to school, and in search of more big money, they ran away to the South. And into their first taste of prejudice. In Virginia they were picked up by the police. In Florida they were called white niggas and sent away to a work farm. But in Alabama they ran into real trouble. The KKK. Light, Bright and Damn Near White is the fascinating account of a young boy, raised in the comfort of his own bright culture, who ventures out into life early on only to contend with a world where neither he nor his culture had value.
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English write by Tom Dalzell. This book was released on 2018-05-11. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.
