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The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of African ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1] [2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).
Americans with sub-Saharan African ancestry for historical reasons: slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, one-eighth law, the one-drop rule of 20th-century legislation, have frequently been classified as black (historically) or African-American, even if they have significant European-American or Native American ancestry.
The one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves [153] and was maintained as an attempt to keep the white race "pure". [154] [unreliable source] One of the results of the one-drop rule was the uniting of the African-American community. [152]
A person's blood quantum (BQ) is defined as the fraction of their ancestors, out of their total ancestors, who are documented as full-blood Native Americans. For instance, a person who has one parent who is a full-blood Native American and one who has no Native ancestry has a BQ of 1/2.
She said the club hosts movie nights, game nights and it hosts a Black trivia game every morning to help educate students. But she says in her classrooms and among the teachers at the school, she ...
African Americans also have higher prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease compared to the overall average. [200] [201] African-Americans are more likely than White Americans to die due to health-related problems developed by alcoholism. Alcohol abuse is the main contributor to the top 3 causes of death among African Americans. [202]
Donald Trump, who has lambasted Latinos all the way from his 2015 speech announcing his first presidential run to a recent social media post insinuating he would take back the Panama Canal ...
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