Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States
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Jordan, Winthrop D.
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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 JCMRS , 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.