Though I had yet to write about my dad's racial identity or publicly claim a mixed-race identity, my first book, My Father, Dancing, a collection of short stories that didn't deal with racial subjects or feature non-white characters, was repeatedly regarded as if written by a black woman.
Many of Angelou's poems focus on racial subjects and themes.
Darryl Pinckney, who has himself explored bi-racial subject matter in his novel High Cotton, is in broad agreement, though with reservations: "Styron did do something rather silly and gratuitous with his Turner: that it had to be because of a white woman.
Race included three categories: non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and other, where other consisted of mainly Mexican-American and other Hispanic, as well as other races (including multi-racial subjects).
Succeeding his father in 1965, he immediately defined himself as his own man by taking on the remnants of McCarthyism, decaying neighborhoods and racial segregation, subjects on which his father on which his father's Globe had often declined to comment.
Apartheid, the legally enforced regime of racial separation, subjected more than 80% of the country's population to systematic oppression for four decades.
(Racial discrimination is subject to an even more skeptical review).
As for that other hot-button subject, racial profiling, Sept. 11 altered many attitudes.
It centers on the notion of black men as "perpetual suspects" -- in other words, racial profiling, a subject much in the news right now.
The policy is the Bush administration's effort to deal with a controversial subject, racial profiling, in a way that earns points with members of minorities but that does not restrict the government's options in the battle against terrorism.
Lehigh must issue an anti-discrimination statement by Feb. 27, 2015, enact a racial harassment policy subject to federal approval, provide annual racial harassment training to faculty starting in March 2015, and discuss racial harassment in orientation programs for new students, the resolution agreement states.
