{"pk":63729,"title":"Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Winthrop Jordan, one of the most honored of US historians, wrote about racial mixing ageneration before there was a field of mixed race studies. At the time of his death, he left an unfinished manuscript: “Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States.” For this inaugural issue of the \nJCMRS\n, Jordan’s former student Paul Spickard, himself a foundational scholar of multiracial studies from the first wave of scholarship in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has edited Jordan’s final article.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"racially mixed people"},{"word":"one-drop rule"},{"word":"hypodescent"},{"word":"mulattoes"},{"word":"mixed race studies"},{"word":"critical mixed race studies"},{"word":"multiracial studies"},{"word":"critical multiracial studies"},{"word":"black studies, history"},{"word":"sociology."}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91g761b3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Winthrop","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Jordan","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2012-09-30T08:11:21+10:00","date_accepted":"2012-09-30T08:11:21+10:00","date_published":"2014-01-27T11:53:20+11:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jcmrs/article/63729/galley/48953/download/"}]}