Why was one drop of black blood rule invented?

Answer 1

The one-drop rule was a tactic in the U.S. South that codified and strengthened segregation and the disfranchisement of most blacks and many poor whites from 1890-1910. After Supreme Court decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson and related matters, White-dominated legislatures felt free to enact Jim Crow laws segregating Blacks in public places and accommodations, and passed other restrictive legislation. Legislatures sought to prevent interracial relationships to keep the white race "pure", long after slaveholders and overseers took advantage of enslaved women and produced the many mixed-race children. The 1910-19 decade was the nadir of the Jim Crow era. Tennessee adopted a one-drop statute in 1910, and Louisiana soon followed. Then Texas and Arkansas in 1911, Mississippi in 1917, North Carolina in 1923, Virginia in 1924, Alabama and Georgia in 1927, and Oklahoma in 1931. During this same period, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Utah retained their old "blood fraction" statutes de jure, but amended these fractions (one-sixteenth, one-thirtysecond) to be equivalent to one-drop de facto.[3] Before 1930, individuals of mixed European and African ancestry were usually classed as mulattoes, sometimes as black and sometimes as white, depending on appearance. States often stopped worrying about ancestry at "the fourth degree" (3 x great-grandparents). When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed Virginia's ban on inter-racial marriage in Loving v. Virginia (1967), it declared Plecker's Virginia Racial Integrity Act and the one-drop rule unconstitutional. Multiracial people are typically identified instead as mixed-race, bi-racial, mulatto or mestizo, or Black or American Indian, for example, based on appearance. Latinos, the majority of whom are of mixed ancestry (usually Amerindian and white in Mexico for example, consider their Latino cultural heritage more important to their ethnic identities than appearance or ancestry. The one-drop rule is not generally applied to Latinos and Arab-Americans of mixed origin. Many Latinos are also mulatto of varying degrees. The Dominican Republic, Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, Panama,parts of Colombia and Peru have Afrodescendentes- or in English people of mixed African descent. The majority of Africans bought to the New World in fact landed in Latin America and the Caribbean- the merican colonies imported roughly 11 percent of All blacks to coe here. Unlike the USA Latin America is moer liberal toward interracial unions hence the lack of a color line.

Answer 2

The "one-drop rule" was a racist social concept developed in the United States that classified individuals with any African ancestry as black. This rule was created to maintain the social hierarchy and racial segregation by defining who was considered "white" and who was not. It was used to enforce discrimination and justify unequal treatment based on the false belief in racial purity.