Word: mulatto
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...purity, and therefore forbid whites to marry American Indians, West Indians, Asiatic Indians, Mongolians, Malays, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, "half-breeds," and mestizos. In South Carolina, racism tinged with male chauvanism holds that a white man can marry anyone (a Mongolian, for example) other than an Indian, a Negro, a mulatto, or a "half-breed," while a white woman can marry only a white man. Let it not be thought, however, that the South Carolina legislature is entirely bigoted, for it generously declares, "Marriages... between white persons of this State and Catswho Indians are declared legal in all respects...
...elimination of Haiti's economic and cultural dependence on the United States and for the establishment of a bond between Haiti and Africa. Recently, his tone has become more strident: he calls for an immediate social revolution in which the Negro population would take over and oust the mulatto economic elite and American business interests...
...from Mulattoes. The rival rebel groups, both based across the border in the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, often seem more intent on destroying each other than the Portuguese. The Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) is led by smooth. Sorbonne-educated Mario Pinto de Andrade, 34, a mulatto whose backing comes mainly from other assimilados, the educated half-castes who have long had full Portuguese citizenship; to widen its appeal, however, an Angolan black, Poet Agostinho Neto, was recently made M.P.L.A.'s nominal leader. Andrade, who, like most of Salazar's foes, is often denounced...
Douglass was better treated than most. A mulatto, he had a hunch that his master was his father. At about the age of seven, he was loaned to his master's relatives in Baltimore, where his new mistress started to teach him to read until her husband grumbled that literacy would make the boy "unfit to be a slave." Douglass snitched books from the house and bribed little white boys to help him with the hard words. He scrawled letters on any available walls. Eventually he mastered the language and held classes to teach his fellow slaves. "Those...
Slated for a continued five-year term as President is Nicolas Grunitzky, 50, the mulatto son of a Prussian doctor and Togolese mother who headed a pro-French puppet regime before Olympio gained independence from Paris in 1960, and who was called upon to take over as Provisional President last January. Ticketed to stay on as Vice President was Antoine Meatchi, 37, a tall, ambitious northern tribesman. To keep the various party factions happy, the election organizers agreed in advance on the makeup of a 56-member National Assembly, divided among virtually all political parties, including Olympio's Comit...