• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The song was re-released on the compilation album Gold (2005). The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically...
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    A2. "Blake Griffin: no longer a rookie". Retrieved 13 March 2014. "One drop rule:A guide to black celebrities". BET. Retrieved 13 March 2014. Taylor...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    first base by deliberately letting the ball drop untouched. A related rule called the intentional drop rule applies even when second base is unoccupied...
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    85: "Thus, they claim that Brazil's informal one-drop rule holds that one drop of White blood allows one to avoid being classified as Black, a tradition...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    sub-Saharan African ancestry as black (thus codifying the so-called "one-drop rule"). In 1967, both the Racial Integrity Act and the Virginia Sterilization...
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  • Anthony "Top" Tiffith to take 50% of Lamar's career earnings ("Top told you, "Drop and give me fifty," like some push-ups"), and attacks Lamar's musical authenticity...
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  • known white lineage were classified as white, the opposite of the "one-drop rule" in the United States. In the 2020 United States census, the number...
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    Reynolds v. Sims Supreme Court decision in 1964, establishing a rule of one man, one vote. Another means to reduce gerrymandering is to create objective...
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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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  • implicated Davis at least one-eighth Black and therefore was in violation of the law. This is an example of Mississippi's "one drop rule" which states that if...
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  • be recorded as "Negro", no matter the fraction of that lineage (the "one-drop rule"). A person of mixed black and American Indian ancestry was also to...
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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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    hair (phrase) High yellow Louisiana Creole people Mulatto Octoroon One-drop rule Passing (racial identity) Pencil test (South Africa) Quadroon School...
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    in 1895, he supported another man's proposal that the state adopt a one-drop rule, as well as prohibit marriage between whites and anyone with any known...
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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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  • 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...
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