{"id":10716,"date":"2010-12-11T23:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2013-10-31T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:48:10","slug":"%e2%80%98one-drop-rule%e2%80%99-persists-biracials-viewed-as-members-of-their-lower-status-parent-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10716","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One-drop rule\u2019 persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018One-drop rule\u2019 persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard Gazette<\/a>
\nHarvard Science: Science and Engineering at Harvard University
\n2010-12-09<\/p>\n

Steve Bradt<\/strong>, Harvard Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Arnold K. Ho (right), a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard, and James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard<\/a>, researched the \u201cone-drop rule<\/a>.\u201d They say their work reflects the cultural entrenchment of America\u2019s traditional racial hierarchy, which assigns the highest status to whites, followed by Asians, with Latinos and blacks at the bottom.<\/em><\/p>\n

The centuries-old \u201cone-drop rule\u201d assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama<\/a>, Tiger Woods<\/a>, and Halle Berry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So say Harvard University psychologists, who\u2019ve found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group.<\/strong> The research<\/a> appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany commentators have argued that the election of Barack Obama, and the increasing number of mixed-race people more broadly, will lead to a fundamental change in American race relations,\u201d says lead author Arnold K. Ho, a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard. \u201cOur work challenges the interpretation of our first biracial president, and the growing number of mixed-race people in general, as signaling a color-blind America.<\/strong>\u201d…<\/p>\n

…\u201cOne of the remarkable things about our research on hypodescent<\/a> is what it tells us about the hierarchical nature of race relations in the United States,\u201d says co-author James Sidanius<\/a>, professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard. \u201cHypodescent against blacks remains a relatively powerful force within American society.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018One-drop rule\u2019 persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group Harvard Gazette Harvard Science: Science and Engineering at Harvard University 2010-12-09 Steve Bradt, Harvard Staff Writer Arnold K. Ho (right), a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard, and James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard, researched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,394,20],"tags":[4685,618,4689,619,4644,631,4686,4688,621,4687],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-arnold-ho","tag-arnold-k-ho","tag-daniel-levin","tag-daniel-t-levin","tag-harvard-gazette","tag-harvard-university","tag-james-sidanius","tag-mahzarin-banaji","tag-mahzarin-r-banaji","tag-steve-bradt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}