The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with...

one-drop rule, but the definition of who is black and the extent to which the one-drop "rule" applies varies greatly from country to country. The one-drop...

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of 1924, based on enforcing the one-drop rule in classifying vital records, was unconstitutional. The one-drop rule attempted to create a binary system...

marriage. The one-drop rule is a historical social and legal principle of racial classification in the United States. The one drop rule asserts that any...

mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million...

able to pass as white people, Melungeons were affected by the one-drop rule. The one-drop rule either caused, or had the potential to cause, many Melungeons...

half White or more, institutions of hypodescent and the 20th-century one drop rule in some states – particularly in the South – classified them as black...

population. Jim Crow laws were a manifestation of authoritarian rule specifically directed at one racial group. Black people were still elected to local offices...

whites to acquire indigenous lands during the allotment process, and the one-drop rule of black identity, enforced legally in the early 20th century, enabled...

of the one-drop rule, a means of racial categorization which emerged during the Jim Crow era in the American South. In effect, the one-drop rule upheld...

southern states had adopted the one-drop rule as law, and southern Congressmen pressed the US Census Bureau to drop the mulatto category: they wanted...

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African ancestry). Under Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, the 'One-drop' rule defined as black a person with any known African ancestry, regardless...

racial discrimination related to slavery history and the concept of the one drop rule. This was prevalent in the South after Reconstruction, when white-dominated...

Integrity Act of 1924 by the Virginia legislature; it institutionalized the one-drop rule. Plecker was killed after being struck by a car in 1947. Plecker was...

racial boundary between whites and "persons of color" by applying the one-drop rule. In his proposed amendment, anyone with "any trace of African or Negro...

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mixed ancestry into simplified racial categories. An example is the "one-drop rule" implemented in some state laws that treated anyone with a single known...

governors in the early Qing and were the ones who governed and administered China after the conquest, stabilizing Qing rule. Han Bannermen dominated the post...

notion of being "mixed-race" has always been uncommon. An informal one-drop rule is often used for Māori. Most Māori believe any degree of Māori ancestry...

including the seemingly white children, were classified as black under the one-drop rule, as they had both black and white ancestry. It was intended to shock...

sub-Saharan African ancestry as black (thus codifying the so-called "one-drop rule"). In 1967, the Act was officially overturned by the United States Supreme...

classifying anyone with African American ancestry as black, specifically in one-drop rule laws passed in Virginia and other states in the 20th century. In Brazil...

the slaves were of different races (African and Asian). Unlike the One-drop rule in the US, mixed-race children in the Cape were not viewed as "white...

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drafting and had its basis on the American one-drop rule. The one-drop rule stated that if you had just one drop of Black blood in you, you were Black, not...

century, Virginia passed a law establishing a binary system of the "one drop rule," requiring each individual to be classified as white or colored (the...

Jamaicans who consider themselves Black (according to the United States' One-drop rule definition of Black), made up 92% of the working population. Those of...

passage of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which institutionalized the one-drop rule by classifying as black (colored) anyone with African ancestry. Powell...