Word: mulattos
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...commit suicide; the lieutenant spends the rest of the picture trying to kill the sergeant. In the book they both succeeded, but in the picture the girl survives to exemplify the moviemakers' striking contribution to contemporary sociology-a general solution for the social and emotional problems of the mulatto. The solution: give...
...trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark in the col', col' groun'. In the fury of his ingratitude, he is obliged to cuff Mulatto De Carlo for flouncing around like uppity white trash, even trains an unsteady revolver on Massa Clark himself...
Fignole's popular appeal is natural. He comes from poor peasant parents, struggled for an education, discovered a hypnotic gift of speech, organized the poor blacks of Port-au-Prince and turned them against the well-off mulatto elite. Preaching a race struggle, Rabble-Rouser Fignole promised the blacks cars, houses and the mistresses of the rich. "Haiti for the black Haitians!" he cried. In more recent years he has tried to forget such anti-elite demagoguery...
Fignole promised "free, honest and sincere elections," but set no date. He also promised "not to abuse" his present position as chief of state, but left no doubt that he intended to run and win. Presidential Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich mulatto businessman, promptly charged that Fignole's candidacy would be "illegal and undemocratic." Fignole's answer was an oblique warning. Said he to his followers: "I ask you people to remain calm- but also to watch everything that may threaten the government. I ask you to respect lives and property-but also to keep your...
...legally recognized in the South. One Kentucky minister with auction-block separations in mind amended the words in slave weddings to "till death or distance do you part." Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse...