The One Drop Rule

The Remnant’s wonky streak continues as David Bernstein, professor at Antonin Scalia Law School, joins the program to discuss his new book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America. Racial classifications are ubiquitous in American life, but David believes they are becoming increasingly arbitrary and incoherent. His solution is to abolish official racial classification altogether and replace it with a separation of race and state. But what would this look like in practice, and how did terms of racial classification originate in the first place?

Show Notes:

- David’s webpage

- David’s new book, Classified

- David: “How Well Do You Know America's Racial Classification System?”

- Sean Trende’s The Lost Majority

- The Remnant with Noah Phillips

- The Remnant with Ruy Teixeira

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