English Explanatory Dictionary

one-drop rule

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The notion that one drop of black blood (i.e., any African ancestry at all) makes a person black.

Word forms

one-drop rule the one-drop rule

Related words

miscegenation

Derived words

reverse one-drop rule
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