{"id":187,"date":"2018-01-16T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=187"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:23:50","slug":"chapter-iv","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/chapter\/chapter-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter IV"},"content":{"raw":"<pre>\u201cMay I ask whether the <strong>black drop<\/strong>, which in our social register makes the whole man black, has manifested itself, and if so, how?\"\r\n\r\nMr. Seaton explained.\u00a0 He had not noticed or suspected it until the neighbors began to talk.\u00a0 He was not certain then.\u00a0 The child was dark, but no darker than many a white child.\u00a0 He had supposed that his complexion might be due to Spanish or Italian or possibly American Indian strain, any one of which was an acceptable ingredient of the American melting pot.\u00a0 His hair was very curly, but not kinky, it had the texture of a white person\u2019s hair.\u00a0 None of the physical stigmata of the Negroid except color were present, and he would not have believed the boy was colored without further knowledge of his origin.\u00a0 But the doubt was only less poignant than the verified fact.\u201d <strong>(p. 21-22)<\/strong><\/pre>\r\n<div class=\"textbox\">Chesnutt introduces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaplaces.org\/population\/onedrop.html\">one-drop rule<\/a>. For more information on the \u201cone-drop\u201d law go to <strong>Chapter XXIX<\/strong>.<\/div>","rendered":"<pre>\u201cMay I ask whether the <strong>black drop<\/strong>, which in our social register makes the whole man black, has manifested itself, and if so, how?\"\r\n\r\nMr. Seaton explained.\u00a0 He had not noticed or suspected it until the neighbors began to talk.\u00a0 He was not certain then.\u00a0 The child was dark, but no darker than many a white child.\u00a0 He had supposed that his complexion might be due to Spanish or Italian or possibly American Indian strain, any one of which was an acceptable ingredient of the American melting pot.\u00a0 His hair was very curly, but not kinky, it had the texture of a white person\u2019s hair.\u00a0 None of the physical stigmata of the Negroid except color were present, and he would not have believed the boy was colored without further knowledge of his origin.\u00a0 But the doubt was only less poignant than the verified fact.\u201d <strong>(p. 21-22)<\/strong><\/pre>\n<div class=\"textbox\">Chesnutt introduces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaplaces.org\/population\/onedrop.html\">one-drop rule<\/a>. For more information on the \u201cone-drop\u201d law go to <strong>Chapter XXIX<\/strong>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-187","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":174,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/174"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/187\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/charles-chesnutt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}