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Because in American culture, African-American ancestry is what's called a "master status." So regardless of what he does, if there's any black blood in his heritage, he's considered black. It's what I referred to in The Color Complex, my first book, as the "one-drop theory." You only need one minor element of black blood to be defined as black...
...think they've always been more tolerated by whites. But people have the misconception that that means it's an easy life for them, and it's not. If you look at someone who looks white to most white people, they are less threatening. But some African-American people will not allow them their black identity. So they deal with issues on both sides...
...there a lot of prejudice within the African-American community against people who are darker...
...necessarily support one. Despite a minor increase in 2006, the rate of pregnancies among teen girls has been on a downward trend since 1991. Another indicator, the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, is alarmingly high: nearly 1 in 4 girls ages 14 to 19 and nearly 1 in 2 African-American girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But this is the first year such a study has been completed, and the study doesn't separate 14-to-16-year-olds from 17-to-19-year-olds, so it's still unclear which way that trend...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said that the occasion brings the black community into one place “so that our African-American students can identify and see and meet and greet and chat with black faculty and administrators...