Thursday, November 13, 2008

The One-Drop Rule

For more background on the one-drop rule, discussed in class on Wednesday, check out the following links and post your thoughts. How does this idea of race as immutable affect the discourse of passing? How does it come up/not come up in The Human Stain?

"Who is Black?," the commentary from a PBS special

An article, "The Invention of the One Drop Rule"

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