{"id":57590,"date":"2019-02-16T23:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T23:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57590"},"modified":"2019-02-16T23:50:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T23:50:40","slug":"on-the-other-side-of-the-coin-implementing-the-one-drop-rule-as-a-way-to-attach-non-black-people-to-blackness-is-equally-detrimental-to-this-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57590","title":{"rendered":"On the other side of the coin, implementing the one-drop rule as a way to attach non-Black people to Blackness is equally detrimental to this conversation."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On the other side of the coin, implementing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-drop rule<\/a> as a way to attach non-Black people to Blackness is equally detrimental to this conversation. The one-drop rule was only a practice found within the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> and was an &#8220;unspoken&#8221; law that never existed on the books. It was merely a way to stop Blacks fathered by their masters from gaining economic or social wealth by inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0002929714004765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diasporans<\/a> or Black descendants of enslaved Africans have European ancestry but that wouldn&#8217;t make them white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keka Araujo, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Explains Her Race and Ethnicity<\/a> ,\u201d <em>DiversityInc<\/em>, February 15, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversityinc.com\/Good-News\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-black-ancestry-doesnt-mean-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.diversityinc.com\/Good-News\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-black-ancestry-doesnt-mean-black<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other side of the coin, implementing the one-drop rule as a way to attach non-Black people to Blackness is equally detrimental to this conversation. The one-drop rule was only a practice found within the United States and was an &#8220;unspoken&#8221; law that never existed on the books. It was merely a way to [&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":[29451,29453],"class_list":["post-57590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-diversityinc","tag-keka-araujo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57590","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=57590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57591,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57590\/revisions\/57591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}