Word: mulattos
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...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...
Brown's omniscient narrator exhibits her preference for Blue Rhonda and her professional colleagues, but eventually allows readers to glimpse some love in the beautiful mansions. Realizing that these diverse classes will all contribute to the future. Brown portrays the next generation's hope as a bright mulatto child. Catherine Despite its span of only a decade. Southern Discomfort stresses awareness of past and future. The present does not exist in a vacuum, memories of a great-aunt's youth are recalled and young Catherine learns of her lineage. Life continues, and we may be a bitchy, bickering family. Brown...
...father was a mulatto, his mother Puerto Rican, and she remarried into a family in which the color line got crossed so many times that it turned into a sort of soft, beige blur. That condition may be fine for discussion in a sociology seminar, but it is rough in a classroom and punishing on the playground. Jeffreys was Roman Catholic, but the other Catholic kids would not hang out with him because he was black. The neighborhood blacks kept away from him because his skin was too light. He found a couple of Jewish friends but was forbidden...
...Where Reed's influences lie in jazz and his vocals tend to be experimental (sometimes to the point of irritating), Jeffreys thrives on another form of Black music--reggae. On One-Eyed Jack, a couplet declares: "Here comes the One-eyed Jack, sometimes White, sometimes Black; Jeffreys uses his mulatto heritage to make the best of both worlds, bringing together white and Black musicians and music. The reggae-pop fusion leaps off his discs in a style similar to Graham Parker's, but in a vision more distinctly American...
...field in South Africa are so integrated that participants should be allowed to compete internationally. The same has been said of soccer, and a French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist may be, many South Africans fear that it threatens to undo this progress. Warns the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "There will be a tendency to say 'To hell with it all, we might as well forget about mixed sport and international contacts and play...