One-drop rule
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one-drop-rule-205-11160007
title:
One-drop rule
text:
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry is considered black. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups. This concept became codified into the law of some U.S. states
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Historical racial classification rule
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
date created:
2004-03-18T21:01:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T11:45:41Z
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