routro66
10 Sep 2010
Love / Do African or Afro- American women find Polish men attractive? [179]
Just a brief footnote to the discussion: According to the U.S. Census about 100,000 people who say they are Polish American also identify as bi-racial. That is about 1% of the Polish American Population. I know of a number of young people of Polish-African or African American Ancestry who are part of Polish cultural and dance groups and/or attend Saturday School. But this is not a recent phenomenon. I continually meet middle aged African Americans with a Polish grandparent or grandparents who have achieved a significant status or educational levels. A senior aide to the governor of Michigan proudly claims her Polish babcia. Most include perogi and gołąbki among their soul food choices. During the earliest period of immigration (I write on Polish immigration and have written more on relations between African Americans and Polish immigrants than anyone else) is was primarily Polish males who married or had long term liaisons often with children than not. One of the towering figures of Polish American Catholicism who performed a wedding between an African American man and his Polish immigrant fiancée in 1929 in a sermon that became legendary in his parish, admonished the mean spirited parish gossips that these are both children of God who has brought them together and that their life together will be difficult enough with the added poison of their hurtful words.
If you are interested in Polonia issues and demography check out the Piast institute. It is a research and policy center which contains an official Census Information Center with the special mission to study Polonia. Piast's newly published study Polish Americans Today is based on a national survey of 1400 Polish American Activists. It also contains a through demographic
picture of Polonia today. Its response to Bill O'Reilly's dismissive remark on the Polish Army in 1939 has gotten wide publicity in the last week. It's older international symposium on J.T.
Gross' book FEAR (analysisoffear.org) is still getting hits. On the facebook search bar enter "friends of piast" and "piast institute" to check it out
Just a brief footnote to the discussion: According to the U.S. Census about 100,000 people who say they are Polish American also identify as bi-racial. That is about 1% of the Polish American Population. I know of a number of young people of Polish-African or African American Ancestry who are part of Polish cultural and dance groups and/or attend Saturday School. But this is not a recent phenomenon. I continually meet middle aged African Americans with a Polish grandparent or grandparents who have achieved a significant status or educational levels. A senior aide to the governor of Michigan proudly claims her Polish babcia. Most include perogi and gołąbki among their soul food choices. During the earliest period of immigration (I write on Polish immigration and have written more on relations between African Americans and Polish immigrants than anyone else) is was primarily Polish males who married or had long term liaisons often with children than not. One of the towering figures of Polish American Catholicism who performed a wedding between an African American man and his Polish immigrant fiancée in 1929 in a sermon that became legendary in his parish, admonished the mean spirited parish gossips that these are both children of God who has brought them together and that their life together will be difficult enough with the added poison of their hurtful words.
If you are interested in Polonia issues and demography check out the Piast institute. It is a research and policy center which contains an official Census Information Center with the special mission to study Polonia. Piast's newly published study Polish Americans Today is based on a national survey of 1400 Polish American Activists. It also contains a through demographic
picture of Polonia today. Its response to Bill O'Reilly's dismissive remark on the Polish Army in 1939 has gotten wide publicity in the last week. It's older international symposium on J.T.
Gross' book FEAR (analysisoffear.org) is still getting hits. On the facebook search bar enter "friends of piast" and "piast institute" to check it out