Meaning of reverse one-drop rule | Babel Free
Definitions
The notion that one drop of white blood (i.e. any white ancestry at all) makes a person white.
US
Examples
“The silence in American public discourse about the reverse one-drop rule as it governed Mexican Americans is significant.”
“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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.