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Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Naomi Zack
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Abstract

The American folk concept of race assumes the factual existence of races. However, biological science does not furnish empirical support for this assumption. Public policy derived from nineteenth century slave-owning patriarchy is the only foundation of the “one-drop rule” for black and white racial inheritance. In principle, Americans who are both black and white have aright to identify themselves racially. In fact, recent demographic changes and multiracial academic scholarship support this right.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 , Winter 1995 , pp. 120 - 132
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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