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Challenges Narrow Perceptions Of Blackness As Both An Identity And Lived Reality To Understand The Diversity Of What It Means To Be Black In The Us And Around The World What Exactly Is Blackness And What Does It Mean To Be Black? Is Blackness A Matter Of Biology Or Consciousness? Who Determines Who Is Black And Who Is Not? Who's Black, Who's Not, And Who Cares? In The United States, A Black Person Has Come To Be Defined As Any Person With Any Known Black Ancestry. Statutorily Referred To As The Rule Of Hypodescent, This Definition Of Blackness Is More Popularly Known As The One-drop Rule, Meaning That A Person With Any Trace Of Black Ancestry, However Small Or (in)visible, Cannot Be Considered White. A Method Of Social Order That Began Almost Immediately After The Arrival Of Enslaved Africans In America, By 1910 It Was The Law In Almost All Southern States. At A Time When The One-drop Rule Functioned To Protect And Preserve White Racial Purity, Blackness Was Both A Matter Of Biology And The Law. One Was Either Black Or White. Period. Has The Social And Political Landscape Changed One Hundred Years Later? One Drop Explores The Extent To Which Historical Definitions Of Race Continue

Author

Blay, Yaba, author; Théard, Noelle, photography director

Publisher

Boston: Beacon Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807013212

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.9 / 5 (601 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14