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  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • The one drop rule & the one hate rule

    The one drop rule & the one hate rule Dædalus, Winter 2005 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley Two portentous practices within the public discussion of ‘race’ in the United States since the late 1960s are rarely analyzed together. One is the method by which we decide…

  • Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future

    Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 1033–1037 DOI: 10.1353/cal.0.0282 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley The focus of media depictions of Barack Obama as a…

  • Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States

    In the middle of a July night in 1958, a couple living in a small town in Virginia were awakened when a party of local police officers walked into their bedroom and arrested them for a felony violation of Virginia’s miscegenation statute. The couple had been married in the District of Columbia, which did allow…