Links worth checking out
CVK
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
In These Times
“Leary adapts our understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to propose that African Americans today suffer from a particular kind of intergenerational trauma: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS). The systematic dehumanization of African slaves was the initial trauma, explains Leary, and generations of their descendents have borne the scars. Since that time, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds have been inculcated and immersed in a fabricated (but effective) system of race “hierarchy,” where light-skin privilege still dramatically affects the likelihood of succeeding in American society.”
Spike Lee DVD box set now available
Cleveland Plain Dealer
“This essential three-disc set collects five of activist director Spike Lee’s best films: “Do the Right Thing” (1989, R) explores racial tensions on the hottest day of the year; “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990, R) stars Denzel Washington as a red-hot trumpet player; “Jungle Fever” (1991, R) pairs Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra in a steamy interracial romance; “Crooklyn” (1994, PG-13) examines family life in 1970s Brooklyn; and “Clockers” (1995, R) is a violent look at 24-hour drug dealers.”
“Sociologists have consistently shown that the death of a spouse significantly increases the chances of the surviving partner’s death. But a recent Harvard study suggests that African-Americans do not experience this well-known “widowhood effect.”… For husbands in interracial marriages, Elwert and Christakis found that the wife’s race played the deciding role. A white husband who lost his black wife experienced no widowhood effect, while a black husband who survived his white wife was more likely to die sooner.”
Dave wrote:
Here’s my thought on the 3rd article/abstract. With over 1 million people identifying as having both black and white heritage on the 2000 census, I don’t think it’s appropriate any longer for studies to discuss monoracial blacks and monoracial whites without out also including discussion and study of white/black biracial people.
For a positive internet community of people with european and african, black and white heritage, family, friends, and supporters, with over 100 active members, please visit http://www.mulatto.org
Posted 17 Mar 2006 at 7:53 am ¶
Oh please! wrote:
Dave, will you please stop with you shameless advertising!!! I have been to your site and there is nothing really positive about it…just a bunch of self-proclaimed “mulattos” whinning about how “blacks” have done them wrong and how “mulattos” should sympathize with the likes of men like Osama Bin Laden, Chavez, and Saddam because, in your words, “mulattos” have simliar “pheneotypes” to the above mentioned men. Give me a break!! You and your “fellow mulattos” are confused, color conscious fools who have nothing better to do than post pictures and obsess over persons of “middle phenotype” (translation: “mulattos”). You claim to promote positive representations of “mulattos” but it is at expense of “blacks” whom you and your group commonly refer to as the “soul patrol.” How cute.
Posted 17 Mar 2006 at 4:50 pm ¶
Dave wrote:
To “Oh Please!” Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I encourage readers of mixedmediawatch to check out http://www.mulatto.org and form their own. Needless to say, I disagree with your assessment of our website community, and I believe it is filled with falsehoods. And a positive identity for mulattos doesn’t have to be at the expense of “blacks” any more than a positive identity for eurasians has to be at the expense of asians.
Posted 18 Mar 2006 at 6:09 am ¶
Oh please! wrote:
Okay, for a self-proclaimed “law student” you obviously don’t know how to read. I didn’t say positive representations of “mulattos” HAVE to be at the expense of African-Americans, I said that your “community” of “mulattos” aims to promote “positive” representations of “mulattos” AT THE EXPENSE OF BLACK PEOPLE. Some, not all, but some of the members and moderators of your board are THIS close to becoming neo-nazis, “mixie” style. As a person of mixed ancestry I find your web site and many of the comments posted there highly offensive and a tragic reminder of just how incidious racism is. Now go get some self-esteem!
Posted 18 Mar 2006 at 11:23 am ¶
Dave wrote:
“Oh Please”, I don’t think the membership of mulatto.org is any more or less “close to becoming neo-nazis” than the membership of eurasiannation.com, migente.com, or a variety of other positive affinity websites. And all 3 of these sites, and many others like them, are great, positive spaces for people of color and supporters, in my opinion. It’s clear that you have a different opinion. I think the best recourse is for readers of MMW to judge mulatto.org for themselves. Like our 100+ members, I think that more than a few MMW readers will find a positive and supportive website community in our website and message board.
Posted 18 Mar 2006 at 5:34 pm ¶
Bukie wrote:
I don’t understand the positive contribution that this study would have on society. What possible good can it do to know how your spouse’s race will affect you after their death? Is it supposed to help you decide who you should marry? To me, studies like this are just perpertuating the racial view we have of society, maybe it’s time to look for other correlations other than those racial. I mean, how are we supposed to move past the race problem if we keep talking about seemingly inconsequential things that only exacerbate and delineate the divides in inter-marriage. I mean, who really cares?
Posted 21 Mar 2006 at 12:58 am ¶
Yeah... wrote:
The study almost seems to suggest that African-Americans don’t matter. If you die and are of African-American descent your survivng spouse will get along fine without you…but if you are white and die, your survivng spouse will be so overwhelmed with grief and loss that they won’t survive that long with out you. So does my being “mixed” lapse the time of surviviorship?
Dumb study.
Posted 21 Mar 2006 at 2:24 pm ¶