The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as Negro of individuals with any African ancestry; meaning any person with one drop of Negro blood was considered black. The principle of invisible blackness was an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:39:59 +0000
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