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reverse one-drop rule en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US) The notion that one drop of white blood (i.e. any white ancestry at all) makes a person white.
   • For Mexican Americans, the reverse one-drop rule operated to open up white status to Mexicans, and thereby the assumption of some political rights, but it also operated to impose a contingent whiteness. 2015, José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, Joe R. Feagin, How the United States Racializes Latinos:
   • The silence in American public discourse about the reverse one-drop rule as it governed Mexican Americans is significant. 2008, Laura E. Gómez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race:

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