For additional historical context on these families, please read the preceding essay, “The One Drop Rule Revisited” ! NOTE FROM MODERATOR: Wallace Jarrell’s research on the descendants of Diza Ann Maness McQueen, identified in […]
NOTE FROM MODERATOR: On March 17, 2009, Renegade South published the essay, “Race and the ‘One Drop Rule’ in the Post-Reconstruction South,” which presented the story of Mary Ann McQueen of Montgomery County, North Carolina. […]
By Vikki Bynum Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of us immediately […]
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