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...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow-Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Mentor Sally E. Stone says her mentoring relationship has been particularly beneficial because she and her mentee come from very different backgrounds. Stone is Caucasian and from the South, while her mentee is Haitian and originally from New York...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSE Students Mentor Seventh Grade Girls in Project Athena | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian who unearthed a slave ancestor: "It certainly brought home to me that we are all related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Pasquarello said CPD is looking for two Caucasian males. The races of the other two assailants have not been determined...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Students Assaulted Near Adams House | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...city school, and doesn't let you forget it. Doorways are chained and gated; security guards outnumber groundskeepers. Despite a school-district policy of open enrollment, 81% of the 2,733 students are African American; most of the others are Hispanic. The school has only four white students, and Caucasian visitors are so rare that students automatically assume they're members of Meriwether's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Meriwether: White Men Can Jump | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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