Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History"

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    • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600-1860 
      Sharfstein, Daniel J. (Minnesota Law Review, 2007)
      Scholars describe the one-drop rule--the idea that any African ancestry makes a person black--as the American regime of race. While accounts of when the rule emerged vary widely, ranging from the 1660s to the 1920s, most ...
    • The Secret History of Race in the United States 
      Sharfstein, Daniel J. (Yale Law Journal, 2003)
      "Spencer v. Looney" was one of dozens of cases decided in the eras of slavery and segregation that hinged on the question of whether a plaintiff or defendant was white or black. During the past decade, legal historians ...