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Saturday, 2021-03-13 00:14Z
Royally Racist: The Fear Behind the One-Drop Rule to Preserve Whiteness Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2021-03-11 Yaba Blay Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are so done with the way the royal family has treated them. We wish the couple and their children all the happiness in the world. Photo […]
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Friday, 2019-11-22 03:19Z
Despite this history, and although denying people civil rights according to their race is no longer legal, socially, the one-drop rule is still very much alive. Many Americans, including liberals who politically reject racism, routinely define white people who have black ancestors as “passing” for white. The same Americans would find it absurd to accuse […]
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Sunday, 2019-09-22 02:27Z
Based on a critical race study in a racially desegregated elementary school, I illustrate how one drop of white discourse from even one less racially literate white teacher can cause usually more racially literate white teachers to support white supremacy.
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Saturday, 2019-07-20 23:29Z
Accepted socially and legally since slavery, this “rule,” as well as its strict enforcement, created a dynamic leadership pool of Light, Bright and Damn Near White revolutionaries, embraced by the Black community as some of its most vocal and active leaders.
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Saturday, 2019-02-16 23:50Z
On the other side of the coin, implementing the one-drop rule as a way to attach non-Black people to Blackness is equally detrimental to this conversation. The one-drop rule was only a practice found within the United States and was an “unspoken” law that never existed on the books. It was merely a way to […]
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Friday, 2019-01-25 15:42Z
On episode #4 of the MAMP podcast, we’re revisiting the one-drop rule with two women who both believed they were white, until they discovered by accident, that they weren’t.
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Thursday, 2018-12-27 01:14Z
The value of black pride cannot be overstated in its role of providing hope, dignity, and political strength to a population that has long existed within a racist white supremacist nation.1 After centuries of American history that have consistently made it difficult to be anything but black (via hypodescent) and made black pride the most […]
Posted in Excerpts/Quotes | Comments Off on Even if hypodescent is no longer enforced, its effects remain. That is, the legacy of the one-drop rule—black pride—is undiminished for many who identify as multiracial even if the rule itself no longer legally dictates how they identify themselves.
Tuesday, 2018-08-14 02:25Z
The goals of this article, then, are twofold: first, to unearth some of the presuppositions operative in this genetics discourse that make possible a biological conception of race; and second, to examine some of the social and historical origins of those presuppositions.
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Tuesday, 2016-12-20 23:31Z
Avoiding the One-Drop Rule The Harvard Advocate Fall 2016 Eli Lee This past January, I attended a concert at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church. The audience in the church’s dimly lit basement was tattooed, bedecked in social justice slogans and, like most punk show crowds, predominantly white. Two hours into the show, a local hardcore band […]
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Thursday, 2016-04-21 19:25Z
We MUST Understand: Where is the ‘One-Drop Rule’ When We Need It Most? African-American News&Issues Houston, Texas 2016-03-04 Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher In regards to ‘race matters’ I remember a much simpler time when we knew who was Black. Now I am aware that we have always had a few of us that have ‘passed’ […]
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