The one drop rule & the one hate rule

Daedalus

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-28

  Hollinger, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 21644489179     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124424     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. For a more extensive account of the historic role of the principle of hypodescent, see my "Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States," American Historical Review 108 (5) (December 2003): 1363-1390, from which several paragraphs in this essay are drawn.
2. John D. Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002,).
3. For a vigorous critique of this book, see Victoria Hattam, "The 1964 Civil Rights Act: Narrating the Past, Authorizing the Future," Studies in American Political Development 18 (Spring 2004): 60-69,
4. followed by a generally convincing response by Skrentny, "Policy Making is Decision Making: A Response to Hattam," 70-80.
5. For two overviews of the development of 'panethnicity,' see Jose Itzigsohn, "The Formation of Latino and Latina Panethnic Identities,"
6. and Yen Le Espiritu, "Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities," in Nancy Foner and George Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), 197-216, 217-234.
7. I owe this information to John D. Skrentny.
8. Ian Haney López, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003), 167.
9. See, for example, Grace Kao, "Asian Americans as Model Minorities? A Look at Their Academic Performance," American Journal of Education 103 (February 1995): 121-159.
10. Advisory Board to the President's Initiative on Race, One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1998), 37-38.
11. Ibid., 46, 48, 65, 71-72, 75, 81, 128, 131.
12. Ibid., 126.
13. This suggestion about the census is a variation on proposals made during the 1990s by a number of demographers and social scientists. See, for example, Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Feinberg, "Black, White, and Shades of Gray (and Brown and Yellow)," Change 8 (1) (1995): 15-18, esp. 18. The substitution of the racial categories with more specific demographic categories would provide individuals greater opportunity to declare their cultural identity while also enabling public and private agencies to pursue antidiscrimination remedies on more empirically warranted grounds.
14. Obama, the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in July of 2004, is the son of a black immigrant from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. His life story and the questions that story raises about black identity and the dynamics of black progress in the United States today are explored in Scott Malcomson, "An Appeal Beyond Race," The New York Times, August 1, 2004, IV, 5,
15. and William Finnegan, "The Candidate," The New Yorker, May 31, 2004, 32-38.
16. Dalton Conley, Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
17. For an exploration of this terrain, see my "Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should Be Explained Rather Than Mystified or Avoided," Jewish Quarterly Review 94 (Fall 2004): 596-602.
18. The most ambitious and convincing study of Jewish success is Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
19. For critical suggestions based on an earlier draft, I am indebted to Victoria Hattam, Jennifer Hochschild, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Ian Haney López, Rachel Moran, Robert Post, Kenneth Prewitt, John Skrentny, Werner Sollors, Eric Sundquist, and Kim Williams. For other assistance I want to thank Jennifer Burns.