(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marya T. Mtshali, Harvard University (THE CONVERSATION) Americans who heard former ...

And they protected whiteness by passing laws that declared “one drop” of Black blood as enough to declare someone Black. Whiteness is property, as the legal scholar Cheryl Hines has argued.

And they protected whiteness by passing laws that declared “one drop” of Black blood as enough to declare someone Black. Whiteness is property, as the legal scholar Cheryl Hines has argued. It’s an ...