one-drop rule
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Noun
- (chiefly US) The notion that one drop of black blood (i.e., any African ancestry at all) makes a person black.
- 2008 April 6, Beverly Gage, "Our First Black President?," New York Times (retrieved 8 Jan 2017):
- [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.”
- 2008 April 6, Beverly Gage, "Our First Black President?," New York Times (retrieved 8 Jan 2017):
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