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...

one-drop rule, but the definition of who is black and the extent to which the one-drop "rule" applies varies greatly from country to country. The one-drop...

of 1924, based on enforcing the one-drop rule in classifying vital records, was unconstitutional. The one-drop rule attempted to create a binary system...

featuring the largest buy-in events One drop rhythm, a rhythmic pattern used in reggae music and related styles One-drop rule, a law in the south of the USA...

non-European DNA being in the minority for these groups, the impact of the one-drop rule either did, or had the potential to, label them as non-white. This redesignation...

mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million...

marriage. The one-drop rule is a historical social and legal principle of racial classification in the United States. The one drop rule asserts that any...

The song was re-released on the compilation album Gold (2005). The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically...

including the seemingly white children, were classified as black under the one-drop rule, as they had both black and white ancestry. It was intended to shock...

southern states had adopted the one-drop rule as law, and southern Congressmen pressed the US Census Bureau to drop the mulatto category: they wanted...