• 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...
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  • 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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  • featuring the largest buy-in events One drop rhythm, a rhythmic pattern used in reggae music and related styles One-drop rule, a law in the south of the USA...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • population. Jim Crow laws were a manifestation of authoritarian rule specifically directed at one racial group. Black people were still elected to local offices...
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    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...
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    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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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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    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...
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    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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    Mischling Morisco- Term for quadroons in Spanish colonies Multiracial One-drop rule Passing (racial identity) Racial hygiene Sacatra Sally Hemings Kottak...
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  • 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...
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  • Óðr Office for dispute resolution On Demand Routing One Day Remains One Definition Rule One-drop rule Online dispute resolution Operator Driven Reliability...
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  • considered inferior to extremes. For instance, Losurdo observes that the one-drop rule found in the American South was more stringent than the Nuremberg Laws...
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    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...
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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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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...
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    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...
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  • According to this rule, a 28-year-old would date no one younger than 21 (half of 28, plus 7) and a 50-year-old would date no one younger than 32 (half...
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    (2005). Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule. Backintyme. p. 117. ISBN 978-0939479238. Retrieved 23 February 2013...
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    beautiful Good hair (phrase) High yellow Louisiana Creole people Mulatto One-drop rule Passing (racial identity) Pencil test (South Africa) Quadroon School...
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    official regional language, often one completely unrelated to their tribal language. Many tribal schools are plagued by high drop-out rates. Children attend...
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