one-drop rule
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The notion that one drop of black blood (i.e., any African ancestry at all) makes a person black.
— [T]he notorious historian William Estabrook Chancellor […] helped assemble a controversial biographical portrait accusing President Warren Harding of covering up his family’s “colored” past. […] Under the one-drop rule of American race relations, Chancellor claimed, the country had inadvertently elected its “first Negro president.”
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