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**alecaf** · 07-14-2011, 10:44 PM

I think the reason why African Americans push the one-drop rule on mixed race individuals because they want them to acknowledge it. American history has shown that bi-racials, tri-racials, etc. who have some African ancestry sometimes deny their African mix and don't claim it but are eager to claim their other racial mixture(s). So, it's kinda of a way to force them to acknowledge that their half, quarter, etc. black/African side like they acknowledge the other races/ethnicities their mixed with.

The African American identity, its ethnogenesis if you will, evolved in probably one of the most hyper-racially conscious societies of the New World (USA). The American black racial concept was constructed in this cultural climate of One Droppism/hypo-descent. There was no escape from it, your lot in life was determined by your African ancestry. I don't doubt that anyone in those times that could pass as white would try to do so by moving away and hiding their past.
However, the US is long past the civil war era, segregation, jim crow, etc. An American who is the offspring of one white American and one Afram parent saying they're bi-racial in the US today is essentially acknowledging both ancestries.

07-14-2011, 10:44 PM	#28
alecaf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 381 Senior Member	I think the reason why African Americans push the one-drop rule on mixed race individuals because they want them to acknowledge it. American history has shown that bi-racials, tri-racials, etc. who have some African ancestry sometimes deny their African mix and don't claim it but are eager to claim their other racial mixture(s). So, it's kinda of a way to force them to acknowledge that their half, quarter, etc. black/African side like they acknowledge the other races/ethnicities their mixed with. The African American identity, its ethnogenesis if you will, evolved in probably one of the most hyper-racially conscious societies of the New World (USA). The American black racial concept was constructed in this cultural climate of One Droppism/hypo-descent. There was no escape from it, your lot in life was determined by your African ancestry. I don't doubt that anyone in those times that could pass as white would try to do so by moving away and hiding their past. However, the US is long past the civil war era, segregation, jim crow, etc. An American who is the offspring of one white American and one Afram parent saying they're bi-racial in the US today is essentially acknowledging both ancestries.
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