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4 pages in length. One's heritage is an integral component to how one's entire life is approached; with tenets of the Irish, Chinese, American and every culture in between easily recognized by those outside of that particular population, one can readily surmise that heritage is the very embodiment of an individual. However, there are those whose heritage are not as cut and dried as, for example, a Scotsman or Brit, inasmuch as the family bloodline has been 'tainted' with an interracial presence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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outside of that particular population, one can readily surmise that heritage is the very embodiment of an individual. However, there are those whose heritage are not as cut and
dried as, for example, a Scotsman or Brit, inasmuch as the family bloodline has been tainted with an interracial presence. In order to compensate for this cultural distraction, the
federal government came up with a way to categorize these ill-fitting races by using the blood quantum policy for Native Americans and the one drop rule for African Americans.
In essence, this formula sought to stamp each person with mixed blood as the minority race, no matter what amount of black/white or Native American/white blood they happened to have.
For the African Americans, the requirement was a mere one drop for a person of mixed race to be classified as wholly black; for the Native Americans, the more
Indian blood one had, the more allocated resources were received (Williamson, 2002). Indeed, while the methodology was similar in nature, that is where any parallelism ended, in that it
was a social punishment to have African blood yet an economic benefit to be of Native American ancestry. "From the centuries old one-drop rule to the complex fractions used
to claim tribal membership; race, culture, and heritage, have always been used inconsistently in a struggle to define social, political, and economic relationships" (Baker, 2000). In one sense, this
approach to racial classification reflects a constructionist perspective while at the same time, an essentialist point of view must also be applied. One can readily apply the concept of
essentialism - or nominalism - when analyzing the blood quantum theory as it relates to Native Americans. To be unique within a world of sameness is a quest sought
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