{"id":5207,"date":"2004-06-24T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:12:19","slug":"frank-sweet-on-the-one-drop-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/24\/frank-sweet-on-the-one-drop-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Sweet on the &#8220;One Drop Rule&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mulatto Nations Times<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mulattonationtimes.tripod.com\/articles\/OneDrop.htm\">Taking a Closer Look at the \u2018One Drop Rule\u2019: An Interview with Frank Sweet<\/a><br \/>\nby Barbara Yanez and Frank Sweet<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Few topics conjure up the unease, surprise, and chagrin as the topic of the color line in the U.S. Exactly who is black? And who is white? What do \u2018black\u2019 and \u2018white\u2019 mean? And how do so-called \u201cHispanics\u201d, \u201cMiddle-Easterners\u201d and Native Americans, not to mention other ethnic groups, fit into these \u201cneat categories,\u201d if at all?<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear that many Americans fully grasp the ludicrousness of the infamous \u2018One Drop Rule.\u201d For as long as any living American can remember, one drop of black blood placed one in the \u201cblack\u201d racial category. Period. Waves of immigration of peoples from all over the world have forced the adoptions of increasingly broader (and therefore meaningless) definitions of both the terms \u201cwhite\u201d and \u201cblack\u201d \u2013 as today, the former group includes black and mullato-looking Middle-Easterners and Latinos, while the latter group includes completely \u201cwhite\u201d \u2013looking \u201cblacks\u201d &#8211; persons with no detectable traces of African ancestry whatsoever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mulatto Nations Times Taking a Closer Look at the \u2018One Drop Rule\u2019: An Interview with Frank Sweet by Barbara Yanez and Frank Sweet Few topics conjure up the unease, surprise, and chagrin as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/7259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}