{"id":49818,"date":"2016-11-06T23:14:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49818"},"modified":"2016-11-06T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T23:14:01","slug":"in-an-election-defined-by-race-how-do-we-define-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49818","title":{"rendered":"In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

FiveThirtyEight<\/a>
\n2016-11-06<\/p>\n

Farai Chideya<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Writer<\/p>\n

When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They\u2019d run DNA tests<\/a> on them to see if they were part black, then publish the information on those who were.<\/p>\n

This was way back before you could order DNA tests online and watch television shows about celebrities seeing their results. I don\u2019t write satire, and wisely abandoned the idea. But the broader concept of bloodlines and our construction of political identity popped into my head during a recent discussion about the election.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> supporters, 90 percent of whom are white<\/a>, have measurably less positive feelings about African-Americans<\/a> and several other groups than other Republicans or the public at large. But how many of his voters are \u201cblack,\u201d not by our current categorization but under the \u201cone-drop rule<\/a>\u201d saying that no matter how white they looked, anyone with a drop of black blood was categorized as such? Variations of the one-drop rule persisted in law until 1983 in Louisiana<\/a>, after a mixed-race woman unsuccessfully sued to become legally white<\/a>, and legislators overturned the law in response to the fractious case. Some argue that the one-drop rule had already been eroded by the 1967 Loving v. Virginia<\/em> Supreme Court case<\/a> on interracial marriage, now the subject of a new movie<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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

In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They\u2019d run DNA tests on them to see if they were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,26,20],"tags":[5758,18578],"class_list":["post-49818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-farai-chideya","tag-fivethirtyeight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49818","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=49818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49821,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49818\/revisions\/49821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}