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单词 one-drop rule
释义

one-drop rule

English

Noun

the one-drop rule

  1. (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.”

Derived terms

  • reverse one-drop rule

See also

  • miscegenation
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