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Ada Quayle
Ada Quayle was the pseudonym of Kathleen Louise Woods, née Robinson (1920 – December 2002). Woods was a Jamaican novelist, author of a historical novel, ''The Mistress'' (1957). Life Kathleen Robinson was born to a mixed-race marriage in Jamaica in 1920. She married an English husband, whom she had apparently met on a boat to Kenya in Egypt. She moved to England during the Second World War, working there as a wireless operator. After the war she settled in Manchester, where she wrote ''The Mistress''. The "rather predictable" plot of ''The Mistress'', set in Jamaica in 1915, is one of "sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantation decadence and deterioration," dominated by "lust, avarice and cruelty." The novel "explores the psychological (and psycho-sexual) legacy of a slave economy" after Slavery Abolition Act 1833, emancipation. In one scene, a white landowner, Neil, finds he has blood on himself after whipping a black labourer, Sammy Johnson. The landowner's distress at wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixed-race
The term multiracial people refers to people who are mixed with two or more races and the term multi-ethnic people refers to people who are of more than one ethnicities. A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including ''multiethnic'', ''polyethnic'', occasionally ''bi-ethnic'', ''biracial'', ''mixed-race'', ''Métis'', '' Muwallad'', ''Melezi'', ''Coloured'', '' Dougla'', ''half-caste'', '' ʻafakasi'', ''mulatto'', ''mestizo'', '' mutt'', '' Melungeon'', ''quadroon'', ''octoroon'', '' griffe'', ''sacatra'', '' sambo/zambo'', '' Eurasian'', ''hapa'', '' hāfu'', '' Garifuna'', ''pardo'', and '' Gurans''. A number of these once-acceptable terms are now considered offensive, in addition to those that were initially coined for pejorative use. Individuals of multiracial backgrounds make up a significant portion of the population in many parts of the world. In North America, studies have found that the mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
