Word: jacksonism
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...that her mother's family descended from the Yorubas in Ghana, it is exactly this kind of precision that has critics fuming. "I think it is a disgraceful thing to try to tell an African American that you can match them to any group in Africa now," says Bruce Jackson, a geneticist at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and co-director of the African-American DNA Roots Project, a nonprofit research group that is digging into the genetic history of American blacks. Jackson says making such classifications is premature because not enough people have been tested to establish distinct...
...Pinguín, a 1940s cartoon boy that resembles the Jim Crow-era caricatures of African Americans. The White House objected to the philatelic stereotyping, which follows President Vicente Fox's gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy González has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...
...time when many (rightly) pity Michael Jackson for the freakish things his early stardom has done to him, it certainly makes you think. Does our society just think it’s all right to push child stars’ emerging sexuality into a torturous spotlight when they’re teenage girls...
...Chocolate Factory--severe bob, outsize sunglasses--on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. But in Depp's Willie Wonka, isn't there more of an echo of another media figure, one with Wonka's penchant for catchy tunes and the company of small primates? How do the candy hawker and MICHAEL JACKSON stack...
...Lincoln issue allowed Civil War buffs at TIME to indulge their passion. Graphics director Jackson Dykman scoured dozens of histories to present a succinct picture of Lincoln as a micromanaging commander who sacked seven generals before settling on Ulysses S. Grant. Deputy art director Cynthia Hoffman and photo researcher Jessica Cruz sifted through the imagery of a wartime era more powerfully documented than any before it. Reporters Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk immersed themselves in new scholarship. Says Painton: "Lincoln is fascinating because the more you dig, the more layers you find." In fact, we hope you'll visit...