race

Pretty much as it says on the tin. With a POD at 1800, make “Mulatto,” or a similar term denoting a person of mixed European and African ancestry a realistic racial category in the United States, chosen by a large number of people, outside of the standard “White,” or “Black”.

What would be the best way to reduce racial tensions in the US and make race have a much much smaller roll in American politics. Bonus Points for having the Civil Rights Act(s) happen at the same date IOTL.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have Islam viewed as equivalently "legitimate" in US cultures as Judaism was by 1899. Yes, it is "foreign," and "non-Christian," it isn't even "white." That goes without saying. They're basically "Irish," but what they're not is "black."...

Hi everyone. I know that race and racism in alternate timelines is a difficult topic to discuss, but I think it's one that's worth exploring, and I think this board is mature enough to handle it. So, I was reading over this Wikipedia page that gives a brief overview on how concepts of race used...

In our timeline, the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors engaged in miscegenation with both the indigenous population and Africa slaves which resulted in the racially-mixed population in Latin America today. But let’s say that in an alternate timeline: 1). The conquistadors bring their own...

So, as we all know, The Race are considered to be Expies of Imperial Japan, supposedly. But a question came into my head earlier today after seeing this TV Tropes page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScaryDogmaticAliens Basically, the question is what if the Race was based off of a...