Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

“Best of both worlds” arguments are also problematic because at times they border on claiming a biracial identity is superior. While some biracial children may have exposure to diverse environments that gives them broad knowledge, it is unfair to assume that monoracial children cannot have this exposure or that biracial children do have this exposure… …Moreover, it is not safe to assume that a racially diverse set off experiences can translate into success.

Another problem with this argument is that it accepts the notion that the parents really are from “two different worlds” and necessarily have two different set of experiences that they share with their children. Parents of biracial children could have similar views about racial issues and similar socialization experiences. Moreover, they could both take the race blind approach to racial socialization, in which the differences of parents are denied of minimized. While very few couples in this study appeared to be raising their children in race blind manner, this is clearly a possibility.

Sullivan, Rachel. “Revisioning Black/White Multiracial Families: The Single-Parent Experience,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003.

Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto

Letter to the Editor: Alleged Extinction of Mulatto

Science Magazine
Volume 20, Number 517 (1892-12-30)
page 375
DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-20.517.375

A few months since an article appeared in a medical journal affirming that the pure mulatto colonies of southern Ohio were dying out after the fourth generation. Can any reader point me to the article in question, or to any definite information bearing on the permanence of the mulatto as a species (or variety)?

Polytechnic Society,
Louisville, Kentucky
JAS. Lewis Howe

Tags: Ohio, Science Magazine

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