Civilization
Submitted by kayc on August 23, 2011
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Civilization
the late 1800s is an example of this racial formation. The federal American Indian
policy combined previously distinctive tribes into a single group. No one escapes the
extent and frequency to which we are subjected to racial formation.
In the southern United States, the social construction of race was known as the
“one-drop rule.” This tradition stipulated that if a person had even a single drop of
“Black blood,” that person was defined and viewed as Black. Today children of biracial
or multiracial marriages try to build their own identity in a country that seems
intent on placing them in some single, traditional category.
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