Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States

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Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States

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The one-drop rule of hypodescent states that one only need have one African ancestor to be black. This is a white Protestant version of the white Catholic limpieza de sangre.

Source

Jordan, Winthrop D., and Paul Spickard. "Historical origins of the one-drop racial rule in the United States." Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies 1.1 (2014): 98-132.
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One Drop Rule