Rhett Jones, “Why Blacks are Committed to Blackness”

 Rhett Jones, “Why Blacks are Committed to Blackness” and answer the following questions: What is Jones’ thesis; how do each of the three ingredients of Blackness (slavery, the “one-drop” rule and lack of ethnicity) shape this concept and African Americans’ commitment to the concept of Blackness; and of the reasons Jones offers for the one-drop rule, which to you is most convincing and why so?