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	One-drop theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The one-drop theory (or one-drop rule) is a colloquial term for the standard—found throughout the United States of America—that holds that a person with even one drop of non-white ancestry should be classified as "colored", especially for the purposes of laws forbidding interracial marriage.
		As such, the "one-drop rule" has been seen as a way to codify social prejudices into legal and pseudo-biological strictures, rather than an expression of any scientific fact.
		One-drop theory is still influential in the U.S.—by de facto American color standards, a multiracial person with black heritage is considered black unless they declare themselves otherwise, identifying instead as white, mixed-race or Native American, for example (different color standards can be seen in countries such as Brazil).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One-drop_rule (812 words)

	The Invention of the One-Drop Rule--The Color Line and The One-Drop Rule
		The one-drop rule first appeared in popular literature in novels and plays about “passing for white.&; This is because the concept of “passing for white&; is an inseparable aspect of the one-drop rule.
		And so the origin of the one-drop rule as an idea in the public mind must be sought in cases where the concept was argued in court, even though higher courts might have rejected it.
		Cultures that lack a one-drop rule lack the idea of “passing for white.&; Indeed, as mentioned in another essay, the very concept of “passing for white&; is virtually unintelligible to people who were raised outside of the United States.
	backintyme.com /Essay050401.htm (7373 words)

	frontline: jefferson's blood: mixed race america: who is black? one nation's definition PBS
		The one-drop rule has long been taken for granted throughout the United States by whites and blacks alike, and the federal courts have taken "judicial notice" of it as being a matter of common knowledge.
		Because blacks are defined according to the one-drop rule, they are a socially constructed category in which there is wide variation in racial traits and therefore not a race group in the scientific sense.
		Not only does the one-drop rule apply to no other group than American blacks, but apparently the rule is unique in that it is found only in the United States and not in any other nation in the world.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html (1655 words)

	Who is Black? by F. James Davis
		Her experience has taught her that, despite the racial purity laws and the one-drop rule, race is a social construct rather than a biological fact.
		This same professor has noted that the U.S. government in effect used a one-drop rule for the Japanese Americans in imprisoning them in relocation camps during World War II.
		I was asked to appear on the show to explain how this can happen, which required an explanation of how the one-drop rule operated.
	www.psupress.org /Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteDavis.html (4506 words)

	L.A. police to record racial data
		It is morally offensive and, the “one drop” rule notwithstanding, preposterous for a child of such a marriage to be required to choose to “be” the race of just one parent.
		Furthermore, by the “one drop” rule, the children he and his Irish wife have had are black.
		At least, he is according to the “one drop” rule.
	www.acrc1.org /one_drop.htm (946 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - Guest Editorial
		It is this genetic profile which the one-drop rule defends as pure by seeking to maintain, and which a mixed-race Buddhism clearly rejects in rejecting the one-drop rule; but which one-drop apologists in opposing mixed-race Buddhism and defending the one-drop rule, clearly also supports.
		To assert an equality of biological inheritance is to correct the total imbalance of the one-drop rule which gives the false impression that the mixed race fall squarely within an "African race," and thus have no claim to their non-African ancestries.
		A clear distortion of science to support the state's credo, the one-drop rule is the principle of laissez faire applied to biology, for superstructure (cultural character in this case, economics in the other) is generated not by intention but by an invisible, inherent demiurge.
	www.webcom.com /intvoice/liam2.html (3065 words)

	Taking a Closer Look at the ‘One Drop Rule’
		Seen thus, the one-drop rule is not necessarily connected to “racism.” Mary C. Walker of 1988 Denver had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a pink skin and yet she was accepted as Black and received Affirmative Action benefits because local Black community leaders accepted that she had an invisible drop of Black blood in her.
		Instead, the best evidence of the rise of the one-drop rule comes from the 300 legal cases held between 1770 and 1990 to determine people’s “racial identity,” where appellate judges wrote down the reasoning behind their decisions ruling someone to be White or Black.
		Getting back to one-drop, the evidence shows that the one-drop rule’s rise was unrelated to slavery; the one-drop rule did not become widespread until around 1910, a half-century after slavery had ended.
	mulattonationtimes.tripod.com /articles/OneDrop.htm (7678 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - Point-CounterPoint
		From: Xyia22@aol.com Subject: one drop rule Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 I don't understand this, why must we fight to determine why we are different and whose fault it is that we believe this or that.
		From: Trinicutee@aol.com Subject: "one drop rule" Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 Well...historically the one drop rule was established in the United States by Whites.
		Her understanding of the 'one-drop rule' is that it was designed to increase the number of slaves in this country.
	www.webcom.com /~intvoice/point56.html (17818 words)

	United Press International - Washington Politics & Policy - Analysis: White prof finds he's not -- 2
		Thus, the "one drop" rule helped make African-Americans and European-Americans into two social groups whose members -- despite sometimes being highly varied in ancestry -- are perhaps more distinct on average in their family trees than the arbitrariness of the "one drop" would lead you to initially assume.
		Granted, the "one drop" rule would be laughed out of existence if anyone attempted to impose it on a land with a more genetically blended population, such as Puerto Rico (which Shriver has begun to study).
		Despite the notorious arbitrariness of the "one drop" rule, the actual American population conforms to its strictures surprisingly closely.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=15042002-084051-5356r (2079 words)

	is there a one drop rule for being hispanic? - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board
		The "one drop rule" came around largely b/c masters sexually molested their slaves and wanted to keep the resulting children as slaves.
		is there a one drop rule for being hispanic?
		Rules are bullshit, especially when they put an individual in one or the other corner.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=7474 (660 words)

	Article One Drop-Still: A racialist's Census
		Indeed, you were deemed black even if your only black ancestor was one great- grandparent-the infamous drop" rule made it so.
		This rigid rule came under growing criticism in the 1990s because of the spectacular surge in intermarriage between Americans of different "races." In some Asian groups-not so long ago categorized as "Orientals" and forbidden to marry non-Asians in some states-a majority of current marriages are to non-Asians, mostly whites.
		That rule was essential to the either-or logic of the Jim Crow system, in which being only part-black was as inconceivable as being part-pregnant.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/_national_review-one_drop-stil.htm (2122 words)

	Race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An example is the "one-drop rule" implemented in some state laws that treated anyone with a single known African American ancestor as black (Davis 2001).
		The government considered anyone with "one drop" of "Black blood" (or indigenous African ancestry) to be Black.
		A further consequence of the absence of a descent rule was that Brazilians apparently not only disagreed about the racial identity of specific individuals, but they also seemed to be in disagreement about the abstract meaning of the racial terms as defined by words and phrases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Race (12784 words)

	SOHH.com Global Forum - For idiots who believe in the one drop rule
		Most blacks in the US wouldn't be considered black if not for the one drop rule.
		For idiots who believe in the one drop rule
		Re: For idiots who believe in the one drop rule
	forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=336738 (603 words)

	"One Drop of Blood", by Lawrence Wright
		By the nineteen-twenties, in Jim Crow America the one- drop rule was well established as the law of the land.
		He says of the one-drop rule, "It is so embedded in our perception and policy, but it doesn't allow for the blurring that is the reality of our population.
		"But the one-drop rule is racist," Daniel says.
	www.afn.org /~dks/race/wright.html (5712 words)

	'One-Drop Rule' Still Haunts Us: Godby vs Board of Education
		From this dilemma emerged the infamous one-drop rule, which required a person with one drop of black blood in their heritage to be classified black.
		Today, we are still groping with echoes from the one-drop rule.
		However, I look forward to the day when a judge rules that it is indeed a criminal act for a government official to use the government’s coercive power to classify any American in a racial category that offends their individual beliefs.
	www.majorcox.com /columns/onedrop.htm (531 words)

	What Is "The One-Drop Rule"?
		Even if "The One-Drop Rule" began as an economic rationalization, the racism it produced permeated every aspect of American life.
		"The One-Drop Rule" means that it only takes one drop of African blood to make one African American.
		The master race, as the Nazis came to call their ruling elite, had to be physically and racially "pure." The absurdities and contradictions this racist ideology produced, and continues to produce, are obvious.
	archive.blackvoices.com /research/blackfacts/rc20030129drop.asp (335 words)

	SOHH.com Global Forum - Question about the "One Drop Rule"?White people ONLY!!!
		the 1 drop rule was actually one of the more tame laws.......there was worse...I tend to forget about the one drop rule becuase its so stupid.
		Question about the "One Drop Rule"?White people ONLY!!!
		I don't think its a rule whites came up with, cats that have ANY black blood in them usually say they are black, I know a ton of mixed kids, and most say they black, a few say they are mixed, NONE of them say that they're white.
	forums.sohh.com /showthread.php?t=317817 (902 words)

	Painting by Number - The Harvard Political Review - United States
		That social fact will remain until the contentious issues of the one-drop rule and preference programs are resolved.
		It would seem that African-Americans, who have historically borne the brunt of the inequities of the one-drop rule, would find its existence particularly odious.
		The very existence of a multiracial option marks the long overdue death of the rule; those who were relegated to one race now have the clear choice to defy it.
	www.hpronline.org /news/2001/06/01/bunitedStatesb/Painting.By.Number-83268.shtml (1230 words)

	One Drop rule
		The rule basically stated that a person with as little as one drop of black blood in their heritage was to be considered black.
		When speaking of Chambers, Twain refers directly to the One Drop Rule when he writes, "[Roxy's] child was thirty-one parts white, and he, too, was a slave and, by a fiction of law and custom, a negro" (Twain, p.
		One Drop Rule: This rule was created during the time of slavery in our country.
	barney.gonzaga.edu /~tmarsh/engl413/One%20Drop%20rule (429 words)

	California Newsreel - ONE DROP RULE
		The infamous "one drop rule" dictated that anyone would be considered Black if they had any African ancestry and was given legal saction in many states.
		One Drop Rule argues that, in practice, Blacks with more European features, lighter complexion and straighter hair, have been favored over those with a more African appearance.
		One Drop Rule explores a recurring and divisive issue in African American communities - skin color.
	www.newsreel.org /nav/title.asp?tc=CN0127 (495 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - From the Editor: April 2001 (Charles Michael Byrd)
		"the one-drop rule") or the inheritance of only the lowest status racial category of one's ancestors.
		"Sure, the formula is an embrace of the old one-drop rule (one drop of black blood makes you black), but this retrograde remedy is an appropriate answer to backward thinking, and what could be more backward than racism?"
		Until that day arrives, however, we can continue giving credit where it is due, and we should all applaud Lise Funderburg's brave admission with respect to the loathsome presence, still, of one-drop.
	www.interracialvoice.com /editor28.html (617 words)

	NewsHour Online: Clarence Page Essay-- May 1, 1997
		The one-drop rule was invented by slave masters because they wanted to have more slaves.
		Today, ironically, the one-drop rule has been embraced by black folks because we want more black folks.
		In America, the one-drop rule goes back to plantation days, and it’s been with us ever since.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/essays/page_5-1.html (687 words)

	The Black Forums
		Your assertion that blacks are imposing the one drop rule upon those people who regard themselves as mixed race is a masterpiece of absurdity.
		The one drop rule is not a “proverb” as you so clumsily put it.
		The issue is further complicated by the fact that 75% of all black people in the western hemisphere are of mixed ancestry and could claim to be mixed race too.
	www.blacknet.co.uk /theblackforums/discus/messages/23/3915.html (676 words)

	One Drop Rule - www.ezboard.com
		It is not the whites perpetuating the one-drop rule anymore.
		The one drop rule is a product of white racism and slavery.
		It is so funny how blacks want to hold on to the one drop rule.
	p200.ezboard.com /fpsipronefrm60.showMessage?topicID=4.topic (1882 words)

	About the "One Drop" rule - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		Too strict a standard - such as the "One Drop Rule" - will likely be more troublesome; especially in countries like America and Spain where a high percentage of whites have at least one distant ancestor who was non-white (American Indians and Moors, respectively).
		I would go by a 6 generation rule.
		Many white people will be less than enthusiastic about a political agenda that hints at persecution for those who are "only" 98 or 99 percent white.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=50607 (1822 words)

	One Drop Rule
		“The one drop rule was a system developed to identify slaves at the turn of the 17
		To maintain their dominant position, white legislators passed laws stating that anyone with even one drop of Black blood in their ancestry were to be considered Black. The result was a class structure within the African American community that continues to affect the lives of many individuals today.”
	www.uky.edu /~lbarr2/ENG264SP05_files/Page1862.htm (147 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - Point-CounterPoint
		What Loving and Rice share, however, are unconstitutional state laws drawing clearly "one-drop" ancestral "race" definitions, and the fact that in each case the Court overturned the "one-drop" rule before it.
		We see TV programs that freely spread the "one drop" myth, telling us, in the name of "black pride" and alleged anti-racism, that we should despise "inferior" creatures who "pass for white" and dare to assume that they should take the name of the great white "race" just because their ancestry and phenotypes are European.
		The "one drop" lovers are losing the contents of their bowels at the thought of it.
	www.webcom.com /intvoice/point47.html (5086 words)

	Mary Ellen Moule -- Africana Library, Cornell University
		Today, the historical one-drop rule that forced all individuals with any African ancestry to identify as Black, has been replace by a variety of identity options that incorporate one or both of their heritage groups into a self-selected identity matrix.
		Yet the literature on biracial identity development is still limited by a tendency to offer a single option deemed to be healthy for the individual.
		The racial identity development of biracial individuals has received increased attention in the social scientific literature and popular media within the last decade.
	www.library.cornell.edu /africana/thesis/moule1994.html (266 words)

	Booklist: One Drop Rule.
		Taking its title from the “system to identify slaves during the turn of the century,” where “one drop of black blood” determined race, this documentary probes racial identity issues.
		Various individuals answer such questions as, “What is it like to be racially ambiguous?” “Are there advantages to being light skinned?” and “What makes someone black?” Most of the respondents are African Americans with varying skin tones, and their responses reflect their experiences.
		Like The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (1998), this is an enlightening chronicle of black journalism for high-school students and general audiences.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v98/fe2/71onedroprule.html (246 words)

	Remembering "One Drop" article
		In TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Jem mentions the "one drop" rule and how it applies to his town.
		I guess I am always intrigued when I find connections, so please forgive me if you already know this.
	kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu /rhetrace/_rhetrace/00000068.htm (37 words)

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