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2005
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The U.S. Color Line
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History
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http://backintyme.com/essay050701.htm
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English
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103-417-152
(Last edited on
2005/06/30 19:35:42 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
The U.S. endogamous color line is rhetorically based on the notion that somewhere along the path of gradually darkening skin tone from Norway to Nigeria lies a border separating White people from Black. In other words, the U.S. system of two endogamous groups assumes that some people are predestined by God or nature to become members of one or the other of America’s two groups. There is no real boundary, of course; change is imperceptible at every step. Nevertheless, U.S. folklore upholds four beliefs:
* Discontinuity - A single color line exists.
* Endogamy - People should not marry across it.
* Impermeability - You cannot switch sides from Black to White.
* Hypodescent - If you have a parent who is a member of the Black endogamous group then you are Black also, no matter your preference or even your appearance.
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