Word: mulattos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birth of hope. Its harbinger is a frail, shy Salesian priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A charismatic preacher of liberation theology, Aristide was spokesman for Ti Legliz -- the "Little Church" of the slums, in contrast to the grand official church of Haiti's temporizing bishops and its French-speaking "mulatto elite." Yet even Aristide ends as one more victim of Haiti's misery. Army goons burn his church, murdering many of his congregants, and Aristide eventually becomes a priest sans pulpit when the Salesians dismiss him for being too political...
...Haliwa-Sapani--who have Black, Native American and European ancestors--were classified as mulatto in the early 19th century, but after the Civil War "the social significance of being mulatto was taken away," and the kinship group began to be classified as Black, McClain said...
CXEMA, Tragic Mulatto, Sob Story--Green Street...
...Hellman's script, Henry is a mulatto man, not a white woman, but Director Sarah Gross says She decided that the interracial sex that might have shocked Toys' original audiences 30 years ago would not shock modern audiences as much as lesbianism would...
...played by whites in blackface. Hollywood's first black star, Stepin Fetchit, fitted the stereotype of the slow, sly, shuffling Negro. Meanwhile, the industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier in the 1950s that blacks had a bankable movie hero. "To this day," argues Film Historian Donald Bogle, "Poitier remains the most important...