Word: mulatto
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...United Party fell and the Nationalist Party, with a rigid policy of total apartheid, came into power. Increasingly repressive laws, disguised as "Suppression of Communism Acts," silenced opposition and further limited what doctors like Dr. Salber could do for the native and mulatto population. Most white South Africans, Dr. Salber explained, were "shocked, but then they accepted the laws. Who wants to go to jail without a trial? We could see that it was going to be increasingly difficult for people who thought differently than the government. If you didn't agree, you had to shut up and live with...
...should give pause to the Pulitzer Prize committee that awarded the palm to its author for a novel that was stronger but not much better (Andersonville). The new novel's problem is simple enough: What happens when a twice-widowed white woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers on the pianoforte. His mistress...
...prospect of losing the 720-sq.-mi. island with its depressed sugar industry, chronic unemployment and dangerous racial tensions does not disturb Britain. But just when it will actually be rid of Mauritius' problems is uncertain. The main opposition to independence comes from a flamboyant mulatto attorney, Gaetan ("King Creole") Duval, 35, whose Parti Mauricien Social Democrate won the other 27 seats...
...said, "telling it like it is" long before the phrase became part of the language. From his Harlem apartment for over 35 years poured a flood of poems, short stories, columns, novels (Simple Speaks His Mind) and Broadway plays (1935's Mulatto), and the lyrics for a musical (1946's Street Scene), and in them all his messages came across with gentle irony and compassionate humor instead of the expectable rage and bitterness. To those angry younger men who put him down for a lack of "responsibility," Hughes replied: "Humor is a weapon, too, of no mean value...
Severe Repression. In South Africa proper, of course, the nonwhites are still severely repressed. For all the billikheid, in fact, Vorster's regime is pressing for early passage of two new bills aimed at the so-called "Colored" (mulatto) population, which once enjoyed almost equal privileges with the whites. The bill would empower the government to draft Colored youths into a labor corps in which they could be subjected to "the performance of any kind of work." The bill would also automatically deny white status to anyone, even blue-eyed blondes, unable to prove that both parents were bona...