{"id":34490,"date":"2013-10-26T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T20:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34490"},"modified":"2013-10-26T20:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T20:34:21","slug":"is-it-time-to-do-away-with-the-%e2%80%98one-drop%e2%80%99-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34490","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time to Do Away With The \u2018One-Drop\u2019 Rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clutchmagonline.com\/2013\/07\/is-it-time-to-do-away-with-the-one-drop-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is It Time to Do Away With The \u2018One-Drop\u2019 Rule?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clutchmagonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Clutch<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clutchmagonline.com\/author\/britni-danielle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Britni Danielle<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conversations about race in America can lead to never-ending discussions, hurt feelings, and sometimes even breakthroughs. Blame it on our complicated past of slavery, racism, and legalized prejudice, but even approaching a frank discussion about race in this country can seem nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>And yet we keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I spotted an article over on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/buzz\/johnny-depps-african-american-roots&amp;fb_ref=fb_share_toolbar_flank\" target=\"_blank\">The Root<\/a><\/em> which stated that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Depp\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Depp<\/a> is a direct descendant of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Key_Grinstead\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Key<\/a>, a former slave who worked to secure her freedom in 1656&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;While I doubt anyone will rush to claim Depp as black (at least I hope not), how blackness gets defined in America continues to be rooted in antiquated notions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;When pondering whether or not we should do away with the one-drop rule, it\u2019s important to remember <strong>it was not created by those of African ancestry looking forge a shared kinship<\/strong> or by local\/federal governments hoping to properly categorize the populace for the purpose of collecting census data (the terms \u201cIndian,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cnegro\u201d were well established), but rather the one-drop rule was created to keep the white race \u201cpure.\u201d <strong>In short, it was merely another tool aimed at protecting white supremacy in America&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clutchmagonline.com\/2013\/07\/is-it-time-to-do-away-with-the-one-drop-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is It Time to Do Away With The \u2018One-Drop\u2019 Rule? Clutch 2013-07-10 Britni Danielle Los Angeles Conversations about race in America can lead to never-ending discussions, hurt feelings, and sometimes even breakthroughs. Blame it on our complicated past of slavery, racism, and legalized prejudice, but even approaching a frank discussion about race in this country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,394,20],"tags":[16248,16247],"class_list":["post-34490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-britni-danielle","tag-clutch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34490","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=34490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}