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"Mulatto" is offensive, I know, which is why it's in quotes. Apologies.

KyleB requested this for my upcoming 20th Century Cultural TL and out of all the ideas I received this one has given me probably the most cause for thought.

I'm envisioning a coalition of mixed race individuals developing by the '20's and becoming culturally significant by the '30's. Incorporating great minds, civil rights activists, and probably most important culturally, artists, creators, and entertainers, who espouse a "mixed-pride" ideal and see themselves as the "future race". As passionate and controversial as the Panthers and the KKK, but as productive and culturally important as the Harlem Renaissance, this movement begins more creatively in the twenties and becomes more of a vocal and impassioned front during the Depression.

Separate from both races, fighting for equality, inciting a new era of acceptance for interracial admixture, and producing a revolution of "mixed pride" media.

How is this possible with a POD no earlier than the onset of WWI and no later than 1940?

What notable people from OTL would join and identify with such a movement and how would they effect it?

And what are the effects of its existence?

NOTE: I'm trying to make the major cultural butterflies on a national and international level subtle and gradual until the 1960's, changing U.S. culture entirely by the late '70's at the latest.
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