Multimedia Collection
One Drop Rule
VHS
45 minutes
E184 .A1 O58 2001
One Drop Rule asks what makes someone Black? Is it 'one drop of blood?' A way of speaking and dressing? Is being Black really a matter of attitude and worldview? The film tactfully explores skin color consciousness with African Americans and inter-racial adults of Black and white parents.
Participants discuss the stresses of inter-racial dating. The children of inter-racial marriages explore feelings of being pressured by others to choose between two cultural identities. They explain the added burden of not being readily accepted by either racial group.
In the end One Drop Rule becomes an eloquent plea that, in the words of Martin Luther King, we judge each other 'not by the color of our skin but the content of our character.'
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