African American Studies
Question One
Anglo America developed a one-drop rule—stemming from the roots of slavery—when dealing with the offspring of what society refers to as "racial/cultural mixtures". This rule says that a person for example who has both black and white ancestry is immediately classified as black, even if the person is 1/8th black. Such hypodescent rules applied to anyone who was not white. The purpose of this classification was to maintain and preserve the "white race", as well as to maintain power and status of the higher castes. (Morning, 49)
Such an identity choice and labeling functions in many different ways. For the dominant group, it reinforces the notion of white supremacy, while the subordinate group gets lower status in society. Anyhow, many mixed people do not even attempt to question such a rule, given that it has been socially conditioned and accepted as the norm. For many mixed African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans, choosing their single ethnic identity is seen as......
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