单词 | one-drop theory |
释义 | > as lemmasone-drop theory attributive. Designating an ideology in which a person is regarded as black if he or she has even the smallest degree of black African ancestry. Frequently in one-drop rule, one-drop theory. ΚΠ 1924 Pittsburgh Courier 1 Mar. 15/1 (heading) Virginian says Negro race too near White. Alarmed over ‘light’ element, Anglo-Saxon urges ‘one-drop’ law. 1927 Amer. Mercury Dec. 389/2 The dark brother is convulsed with mirth over the famous one-drop theory, that distinctive contribution to the science of anthropology which lists as Negroes all people having the remotest Negro ancestry, despite the fact they may be..indistinguishable from the purest Nordic. 1944 J. A. Rogers Sex & Race III. p. viii The United States Census Bureau..decrees that if one has a known Negro ancestor, he is a Negro... As long as the ‘one drop’ theory remains refutation of alleged inferiority must follow the arbitrary lines set by the Bureau of the Census. 1976 J. G. Mencke Mulattoes & Race Mixture (Dissertation, Univ. North Carolina) ii. 68 These ideas involved the nearly universal acceptance of what might be termed the ‘one drop rule’, the belief that regardless of how distant a mulatto's black ancestry might be..he nevertheless remained a Negro. 1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation iii. 121 Should old-time southern state constitutions be ransacked for official definitions of negritude and whiteness? Should we adopt the ‘one drop’ theory, or the ‘one-quarter’ theory? 2000 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 22 Oct. 15/3 The one-drop rule succeeded all too well, so much so that its most devoted adherents today are African-Americans. < as lemmas |
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