{"id":41443,"date":"2015-06-17T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41443"},"modified":"2015-06-21T03:39:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T03:39:22","slug":"the-one-drop-rule%ef%bb%bf-which-for-much-of-american-history-legally-defined-as-black-anyone-with-a-black-ancestor-was-used-to-keep-black-people-from-adopting-whiteness-ironica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41443","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cone-drop rule\ufeff,\u201d which, for much of American history, legally defined as black anyone with a black ancestor, was used to keep black people from adopting whiteness. Ironically, it has made it easier for Ms. Dolezal\ufeff to claim blackness without others questioning the assertion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>,\u201d which, for much of American history, legally defined as black anyone with a black ancestor, was used to keep black people from adopting whiteness. Ironically, it has made it easier for <a href=\"http:\/\/spokanenaacp.com\/rachel-dolezal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. [Rachel]\u00a0Dolezal<\/a> to claim blackness without others questioning the assertion. If they are not themselves of a similar hue to Ms. Dolezal, many black people watching her story unfold can recognize in her features a cousin, parent or grandparent. African-Americans vary in appearance from light-skinned to coal black, straight- to curly-haired, keen- to broad-featured, and every possible combination in between.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamarawinfreyharris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamara Winfrey Harris<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41436\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal\u2019s Harmful Masquerade<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, June 16, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/16\/opinion\/rachel-dolezals-harmful-masquerade.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/16\/opinion\/rachel-dolezals-harmful-masquerade.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cone-drop rule,\u201d which, for much of American history, legally defined as black anyone with a black ancestor, was used to keep black people from adopting whiteness. Ironically, it has made it easier for Ms. [Rachel]\u00a0Dolezal to claim blackness without others questioning the assertion. If they are not themselves of a similar hue to Ms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2640,20257,20241,9493,2327],"class_list":["post-41443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-new-york-times","tag-rachel-a-dolezal","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-tamara-winfrey-harris","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443","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=41443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}