Word: mulatto
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Prewar Britain's Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain's Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during the war left behind hundreds of illegitimate mulatto babies. Last fortnight London's League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro soldiers and British women were in social or economic straits...
Adoption, however, was all but impossible. Like British village matrons, British charitable institutions were turning up suddenly race-conscious noses at illegitimate mulatto babies. Even when the father and mother were married, U.S. custom sometimes intervened to prevent reunion. The League of Colored Peoples asked one Southern Negro father if he wanted to take his white wife to America. "Brother," he replied, "if I did, I would have to leave her in New York when I went home...
...Meal a Day. Elected President in 1941, Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before...
...romantic hokum of Show Boat's well-known story-with its dashing gambler, its deserted young wife who troupes to stardom, its pretty mulatto who tries to "pass"-calls up the color of Mississippi River life, of the 1893 World's Fair, of grimy furnished rooms and glittering music halls. It fetches up a lot of gay, happy dancing, much of it with a period touch of cancans and cakewalks. Only toward the end of the show, when the plot runs down, does the Show Boat revival lose its lure...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...