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While attitudes in the mainland United States have been shaped by the long legacy of the “one-drop rule,” in which a single drop of “black blood” conferred “blackness,” Puerto Ricans believe the opposite — that even dark-skinned people can’t be black if they have “white blood.” Puerto Ricans use terms like mulatto or trigueño to describe those falling somewhere between white and black. But when presented with race checkboxes that offer no intermediate options, Salvador simply goes by what he knows.
If the U.S had never adopted the one-drop rule would there be several categories used to count people mixed with African ancestry? Would the Black population be smaller than what it is today?
As far as that example with that Puerto Rican guy. I wonder if many Latin people would prefer the labels 'Afro-Latino' and 'Afro-Latina' instead of the word Black to choose from on the census?
Wendy Roth has been arguing for years that the U.S. Census Bureau should ask about race in a different way. The race box that people check for themselves on the census doesn’t always match the box someone else might have checked for them. And that, Roth says, is a problem.
Many Hispanics and people from the Middle East check "white" as their race on the census. This is a "problem" only in the fevered minds of people like Ms. Roth.
Many Hispanics and people from the Middle East check "white" as their race on the census. This is a "problem" only in the fevered minds of people like Ms. Roth.
Aren't you a proponent that humanity can be separated into races?
One drop rule was stupid and lead to much of this nonsense. Why did that rule ever come along in the USA and not in other places?
Because the U.S. wanted to maintain a strict separation between white and black and create as many slaves as possible. Even after slavery, they wanted all keep all resources for the whitest persons so even people with little African blood were excluded. They treated African heritage like a stain that polluted white heritage.
It wasn’t that way in most of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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