{"id":4599,"date":"2012-04-16T01:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:18:44","slug":"if-youre-half-black-youre-just-black-reflected-appraisals-and-the-persistence-of-the-one-drop-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"“If You’re Half Black, You’re Just Black”: Reflected Appraisals and the Persistence of the One-Drop Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If You’re Half Black, You’re Just Black”: Reflected Appraisals and the Persistence of the One-Drop Rule<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sociological Quarterly<\/a>
\nVolume 51 Issue 1<\/a> (Winter 2010)
\nPages 96 – 121
\nPublished Online: 2010-01-15
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2009.01162.x<\/a><\/p>\n

Nikki Khanna<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Vermont<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite growing interest in multiracial identity, much of the research remains atheoretical and limited in its approach to measuring identity. Taking a multidimensional approach to identity and drawing on reflected appraisals (how they think others see them), I examine racial identity among black-white adults in the South and the lingering influence of the <\/strong>one-drop rule<\/strong><\/a>. Most respondents internally identify as black and when asked to explain these black identities, they describe how both blacks and whites see them as black. I argue that the one-drop rule still shapes racial identity, namely through the process of reflected appraisals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…To address this gap in the literature, I draw on interview data with 40 black-white biracial adults currently living in the South and examine how reflected appraisals shape their racial identities. Because I am looking at racial identity among people with black ancestry, I also look at how the one-drop rule influences the reflected appraisal process (and hence identity). Few studies seriously engage reflected appraisals as a determinant of racial identity, and none examine the way in which the one-drop rule affects reflected appraisals. Additionally, I interview black-white biracial people who are currently living in the South for two reasons. First, the one-drop rule is historically rooted in Southern slavery and the Jim Crow<\/a> segregation in the South, and recent empirical research suggests that the one-drop rule continues to shape black identities in the South (Harris and Sim 2002; Brunsma 2005, 2006). \u00a0Second, little attention has been given to this region in previous studies. <\/strong>While quantitative studies suggest that the one-drop rule still impacts identity in the South, little qualitative work examines black-white identity within this context (see Rockquemore and Brunsma 2002a for an exception)….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“If You’re Half Black, You’re Just Black”: Reflected Appraisals and the Persistence of the One-Drop Rule Sociological Quarterly Volume 51 Issue 1 (Winter 2010) Pages 96 – 121 Published Online: 2010-01-15 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1533-8525.2009.01162.x Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Despite growing interest in multiracial identity, much of the research remains atheoretical and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[352,3045,82,1835],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-nikki-khanna","tag-nikki-khanna-sherwin","tag-one-drop-rule","tag-sociological-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","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=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42736,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/42736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}