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How the One Drop Rule Shaped Blackness

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This is how the 'One Drop Rule.' a principle that stated that person with known even a drop of African ancestry makes that person Black, and how its legacy continues to affect us today.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/one-drop-rule-persists/ 
https://aaregistry.org/story/the-one-drop-rule-a-brief-story/

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