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Blacks in the USA

Who is Black? One Nation's Definition

F. James Davis is a retired professor of sociology at Illinois State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Who is Black? One Nation's Definition (1991), from which this excerpt was taken. Reprinted with permission of Penn State University Press To be considered black in the United States not even half of one's ancestry must be African black. But will one-fourth do, or one-eighth, or less? The nation's answer to the question 'Who is black?" has long been that a black is any person with any known African black ancestry. This definition reflects the long experience with slavery and later with Jim Crow segregation. In the South it became known as the "one-drop rule,'' meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black. It is also known as the "one black ancestor rule," some courts have called it the "traceable amount rule," and anthropologists call it the "hypo-descent r...

Immigration and Being "Other" within the Black Family

Immigration and Being ‘Other’ Within the Black Family [Opinion] Although we are all Black, do differences still arise when we find that we are descended from different parts of the diaspora? by M. Michelle Derosier, September 19, 2016 AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Print Share to Email Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to More 12 Comments Revelers march during the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York. AP / Craig Ruttle This month natives and visitors alike danced their way through the streets of Brooklyn in celebration of the annual West Indian Carnival. Scores of Caribbean immigrants proudly waved the flags of their native Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, and many others. It’s a kaleidoscope of the Black diaspora and just one story of who we are in this country. Of the New York’s 3 million foreign-born residents, non-Hispanic Caribbeans account for 19% of the pop...

Being in Haïti without being in Haïti

Haiti All latest updates The island and the outside world Being in Haiti without being in Haiti Feb 12th 2009 | Online extra Gonaives | Labadee | Port au Prince Gonaives TRAFFIC creeps down a dusty avenue. Gonaives looks like a poor city, with a steady flow of pedestrians walking along the edges of the road, but it does not immediately seem destroyed. Then we turn a corner and find a wall of dirt halfway up the street. The bulldozers and dump trucks have cleaned the thoroughfares, and the efforts of thousands, with shovels, have begun on the smaller streets. But the empire of dirt persists. It looms over our heads and we scramble up the edge, looking now down at nearby rooftops and then around the nearest corner, where this cracked tube, like an engorged elemental boa constrictor, continues into the distance. I remember grappling with the idea of infinity when I was a boy. W...

Neymar’s blond ambition and the question of racism, identity...

Neymar’s blond ambition and the question of racism, identity and marketability of black public figures 32 Votes Three weeks ago, Brazil’s latest soccer sensation was at the center of another controversy in regards to the question of race. Santos soccer club/Brazilian national team superstar Neymar (da Silva Santos Júnior) made headlines after he approached an opposing coach and asked if he had made a racial slur against him during a game. Neymar’s image, the complexity of his racial identity, stance against racism and marketability says much about the marketability of black public figures, Brazilian and American. Below is how Rafa Santos reported the incident. BW of Brazil’s comments will follow the article. Neymar, racism and the question that goes beyond a simple game Neymar in match against Ituano . by Rafa Santos “Did you call me a macaco (monkey)?” Neymar asked in ...