{"id":51218,"date":"2017-01-17T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51218"},"modified":"2017-01-17T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:03:04","slug":"definition-of-race-can-vary-from-country-to-country-and-the-use-of-the-one-drop-rule-as-defined-in-law-is-particular-only-to-the-usa-similarly-in-the-uk-as-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51218","title":{"rendered":"Definition of race can vary from country to country, and the use of the \u2018one drop rule\u2019 \u2013 as defined in law \u2013 is particular only to the USA. Similarly in the UK, as with the USA, despite a significant proportion of individuals self-defining as Mixed Race whilst partaking in respective census measures, the media in each country has continued to define \u2018people of colour\u2019 as black."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The definition of race has come under scrutiny by a number of researchers (Case, 2012; Soudien, 2010; Rose &amp; Paisley, 2012). This can include the arguments surrounding the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one drop rule<\/a>.\u2019 This has its origin in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">racial segregation laws<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a> that defines the extent to which any person can be considered African-American relates to their having just one African-American ancestor. \u2018A black is any person with any known African black ancestry\u2019 (Davis, 2001, p.5). A difficulty with this definition is the fact that race can also be affected in both directions. As Davis (2001, p.6) points out, \u2018many of the nation\u2019s black leaders have been of predominantly white ancestry.\u2019 Definition of race can vary from country to country, and the use of the \u2018one drop rule\u2019 \u2013 as defined in law \u2013 is particular only to the USA. Similarly in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a>, as with the USA, despite a significant proportion of individuals self-defining as Mixed Race whilst partaking in respective census measures, the media in each country has continued to define \u2018people of colour\u2019 as black. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">Miscegenation<\/a> promotes assimilation with all other racial groups, but for African-Americans it disadvantages the white element; for other racial groups it advantages the non-white element (Soudien, 2010). This varied definition of race can thus undermine the fuller understanding of the intersectionality between race: in the USA, not even all non-white groups are discriminated against equally. This renders patterns of discrimination more complex and multilayered than might otherwise be considered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>J. J. Lindsley, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51114\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy McIntosh (1997: 291) describes White privilege as \u2018an invisible package of unearned assets\u2019. A discussion on the relative advantages and disadvantages of this analogy in advancing our understanding of Whiteness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Medium<\/em>, January 8, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@JohnJLindsley\/peggy-mcintosh-1997-291-describes-white-privilege-as-an-invisible-package-of-unearned-assets-732c671f5fb5\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@JohnJLindsley\/peggy-mcintosh-1997-291-describes-white-privilege-as-an-invisible-package-of-unearned-assets-732c671f5fb5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of race has come under scrutiny by a number of researchers (Case, 2012; Soudien, 2010; Rose &amp; Paisley, 2012). This can include the arguments surrounding the \u2018one drop rule.\u2019 This has its origin in the racial segregation laws in the USA that defines the extent to which any person can be considered African-American [&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":[25950,25951,18537,1162],"class_list":["post-51218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-j-j-lindsley","tag-john-j-lindsley","tag-medium","tag-peggy-mcintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51218","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=51218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51219,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51218\/revisions\/51219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}