>Reading some history book >have the author calling Pushkin

Hannibal his grandfather was from an unknown part of Africa believed to be from Ethiopia or possibly farther inland. He was a military engineer under Peter the great. When to a university in France and fought in the war of the quadruple alliance.

Exclamation point.

>>2980969
>Pushkin
>forgotten by general history

You must be an American

>>2981012
that was exactly what I found out.

>>2981017
it was an interrogation point because after reading the information, I was rather questioning the author, instead of taking it for granted. the exclamation point came over later, when I confirmed the information.

>1/8th Eritrean
>"Negroid"
Is that really how it works?

>>2980969
I'm Russian and my parents taught me this when I was little, I'm pretty sure most Russians are well aware of this. I've lived in America most of my life and I can probably count on my fingers how many times I've heard Pushkin even mentioned in general. I feel like if he was more popular outside those interested in Russian lit the fact would be more well known.

>>2981035
Any humanities graduate knows Pushkin, but it is not something that people simply talk about "hey, what about that mulatto ruskie, Pushkin. he wrote some nice stuff isn't?"

How is a literal Octoroon a negroid

>>2981043
The book I was reading was on history of Brazil, and the author was talking about racial issues in the decline of slavery in Brazil.
Being 1/8th Eritrean in the Brazilian Empire would make him an "octoroon" which is still not white.

The book is Mansions and Shanties by Gilberto Freyre, btw. He cites Pushkin to exemplify that being negroid doesn't mean one is unable to be cultural. The book is a little... outdated. (when it comes to scientific racism specifically)

>>2981060
just look at his face, he has quite visible negroid features.