Your theory may be correct in some instances. However you excluded white influence from this discussion. How do you account for the mulatto children who were white/African? Also your theory makes no sense unless you are also pointing out that many whites only married other whites (historically speaking). There were divivisions within the white community, as to who would marry whom, based on economics. I would venture to say that there were not a lot of English and Irish marriages in Colonial America.
btw I did miss the earlier posting.
anita
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:11:41 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Mulatto> To: [log in to unmask]> > [Given the history of the KKK, in America, I am not surprised. Since this > is a current event why is it being posted on a Virginia history list?]> > You must have missed this earlier posting.> > > It is very relevant to Virginia history. See, Howard Bodenhorn - The > Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum > Virginia - Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33:1 Journal of > Interdisciplinary History 33.1 (2002) 21-46 The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological > Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Howard Bodenhorn > > For, as the whites have their blond and brunette, so do the blacks have > their chocolate, chocolate-to-the-bone, brown, low-brown, teasing-brown, yellow, > high-yellow and so on. The difference on the black side is so much more > interesting. --Claude McKay, quoted in Joel Williamson, New People: Miscegenation > and Mutattoes in the United States.> > Langston Hughes, the most prominent writer of the Harlem Renaissance > emphasized skin color throughout his fiction. At different times, he referred to > African-Americans as brown, light-brown, golden, yellow, high-yellow, almost > white, blond, three-quarters pink, high-toned, coffee with cream, and > cafe-au-lait. In Hughes' fiction, complexion was paramount because it created > interpersonal tensions, reflecting larger social dynamics. African-American men in > Hughes' fiction expressed a preference for light-skinned women, and dark-skinned > women resented both the men who acted on that preference and the women who > benefited from it. Historians of race are quick to note that these tensions > were not just the stuff of fiction.> > Basil Forest> > > > > > In a message dated 11/7/2008 2:34:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes:> > > > > **************AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other > Holiday needs. Search Now. > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from> -aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001)> > ______________________________________> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
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