{"id":5494,"date":"2010-02-25T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2011-06-25T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T21:47:28","slug":"race-and-the-%e2%80%9cone-drop-rule%e2%80%9d-in-the-post-reconstruction-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"Race and the \u201cOne Drop Rule\u201d in the Post-Reconstruction South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/17\/race-and-the-one-drop-rule-in-the-post-reconstruction-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">Race and the \u201cOne Drop Rule\u201d in the Post-Reconstruction South<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners<br \/>\n<\/a>2009-03-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.txstate.edu\/history\/people\/faculty\/bynum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria E. Bynum<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Emeritus Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Texas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many people, perhaps most, think of \u201crace\u201d as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(racial_identity)\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>.\u201d Most of us immediately picture a light-skinned person who is \u201chiding\u201d their African ancestry. Many would go further and accuse that person of denying their \u201creal\u201d racial identity. Yet few people would accuse a dark-skinned person who has an Anglo ancestor of trying to pass for \u201cblack,\u201d and thereby denying their \u201ctrue\u201d Anglo roots!<\/p>\n<p>So why is a white person with an African ancestor presumed to be \u201creally\u201d black? In fact, in this day of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> testing, it\u2019s become increasingly clear that many more white-identified people have a \u201cdrop\u201d or two of African ancestry than most ever imagined. Are lots of white folks (or are they black?) \u201cpassing,\u201d then, without even knowing it?..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/renegadesouth.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/17\/race-and-the-one-drop-rule-in-the-post-reconstruction-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and the \u201cOne Drop Rule\u201d in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum,\u00a0Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of \u201crace\u201d as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term \u201cpassing.\u201d Most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,8,6462,394,20],"tags":[82,2317,1453,1454],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-one-drop-rule","tag-renegade-south-histories-of-unconventional-southerners","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","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=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}