{"id":34640,"date":"2013-11-09T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34640"},"modified":"2013-11-09T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T14:41:48","slug":"how-diversity-will-alter-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34640","title":{"rendered":"How Diversity Will Alter Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Diversity Will Alter Black History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Root<\/a>
\n2013-11-06<\/p>\n

Lynette Holloway<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A changing population will help shed more light on America\u2019s multiracial past.<\/em><\/p>\n

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(The Root)\u2014This is part 3 of a three-part series. To see the previous stories, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Time was, the social construct of the one-drop rule<\/a> made United States history either black or white. The rule emerged from the South as a way to facilitate slavery and implement Jim Crow segregation<\/a>. But while the courts and the civil rights movement have dismantled legal segregation, vestiges of the one-drop rule still linger.<\/p>\n

But now, 7 million Americans self-identify as multiracial, quickly changing the meaning of who is black, white, Asian, Hispanic or other. For some, it raises questions about how history is perceived by future generations, black history specifically. Will there still be a need for Black History Month?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been biracial or a multiracial country since the 17th century,\u201d <\/strong>Bernard W. Kinsey told The Root<\/em>. He and his wife, Shirley, are touring their Kinsey Collection, a national museum exhibit of African-American art and history dating back to the 1600s.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica is the only country in the world where having one drop of black blood still makes you black,\u201d Kinsey continued. \u201cWe operate on this notion of color as a basis of identity in America. I\u2019ve been to 94 countries, and no other country operates quite like America does with this notion of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

Douglas A. Blackmon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II<\/em>, told The Root that a multiracial America will only bring to the surface what has been hidden for centuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll American history has always been multiracial, at least certainly since the early 1600s,\u201d<\/strong> Blackmon told The Root. \u201cIt\u2019s not a question of whether there has been a multiracial history, but whether it\u2019s been acknowledged or specifically understood…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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