Talk:Anatole Broyard

Ms. Broyard discovered that her father's ancestry was, in fact, more white than black
There is no such thing, if you are Black you will always genetically be more black since the black gene is the dominant gene. It is prejudice like your writing that keep stories like this hidden. Good Job. 12.161.66.6 (talk) 22:06, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Incorrect. Parkwells (talk) 00:35, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * There's no such thing as "the black gene" you racist. And "genetically be more black since the black gene is the dominant gene" indicates that you have no idea what "genetically" means and the difference between genotype and phenotype. -- Jibal (talk) 00:03, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

This isn't the case. Melanin, which determines skin color, is determined by four to six genes which operate under incomplete dominance. See the article Human skin color.24.124.64.42 (talk) 08:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I just reread the article by Henry Louis Gates Jr., "White Like Me." According to this source, Broyard was predominantly of black ancestry - Gates consulted legal records in New Orleans (from which his family originated). If this is true, this article may be inaccurate. Aoibheannniamh (talk) 13:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


 * There were disagreements as to how people were categorized. Broyard clearly was of mixed ancestry, but after the US takeover of the Louisiana Territory, the South's binary approach to racial categorization was adopted in Louisiana, so that people with any black ancestry were characterized as black, disregarding whether they also had white ancestry, as did Louisiana Creoles as a group.Parkwells (talk) 00:35, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * "White Like Me" is an ideological polemic, not a reliable factual source. -- Jibal (talk) 00:15, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Broyard's race given too much importance
What is Broyard most well known as? Broyard's race and his own view of it, though interesting to speculate on, are being given too much weight in this article. He wasn't widely known in his life as being part black, and he avoided the subject in his writing. He was known primarily as a writer and as being in the literary world, NOT for his ancestry. I don't know a lot about his work, but perhaps the focus of this article should be shifted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The 2000 Man (talk • contribs) 01:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Indeed. This article is a racist hot mess, even going so far as to irrelevantly mention the skin tone of his wife. -- Jibal (talk) 00:06, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 07:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Deeply racist article
"Broyard first married Aida Sanchez, a light-skinned, multi-racial Puerto Rican woman"

So what?

Broyard wanted to be seen as a writer and a person, not a black writer and a black person, and yet most of this article is about race -- how offensive and disgusting. -- Jibal (talk) 23:58, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I removed the "light-skinned, multi-racial" bit as it is not in the citation given (as far as I can tell). Doctormatt (talk) 02:42, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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