Editing One-drop rule (section)

==Allusions==
[[Charles W. Chesnutt]], who was of mixed race and grew up in the North, wrote stories and novels about the issues of mixed-race people in southern society in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The one-drop rule and its consequences have been the subject of numerous works of popular culture. The American [[Musical theatre|musical]] ''[[Show Boat]]'' (1927) opens in 1887 on a Mississippi River boat, after the Reconstruction era and imposition of [[racial segregation]] and [[Jim Crow]] in the South. Steve, a white man married to a mixed-race woman who [[Passing (racial identity)|passes]] as white, is pursued by a Southern sheriff. He intends to arrest Steve and charge him with [[miscegenation]] for being married to a woman of partly black ancestry. Steve pricks his wife's finger and swallows some of her blood. When the sheriff arrives, Steve asks him whether he would consider a man to be white if he had "negro blood" in him. The sheriff replies that "one drop of Negro blood makes you a Negro in these parts". Steve tells the sheriff that he has "more than a drop of negro blood in me". After being assured by others that Steve is telling the truth, the sheriff leaves without arresting Steve.<ref name=tcm>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081205074049/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?scarlettTitleId=14440 ''Show Boat'' (1951) Overview], Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2008-03-21.</ref><ref name=canada>[http://www.theatre-musical.com/showboat/synopsis.html Make Believe&nbsp;– Show Boat&nbsp;– Synopsis, from the 1993 Canadian cast recording] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407000947/http://www.theatre-musical.com/showboat/synopsis.html |date=7 April 2008}}, Theatre-Musical.com. Retrieved 2008-03-21.</ref>