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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Doria 100% AA?[/quote]

Do you mean is she 100% black?

AA is an ethnicity, not a race. Black is a race. There are black people from Nigeria, Jamaica, England, France, Kenya, Brazil, Canada, and even China. They are not African-American.

Most AAs have some white ancestry. Around 20% is common. Skip Gates says the average is 24% European.  https://www.npr.org/2019/01/21/686531998/historian-henry-louis-gates-jr-on-dna-testing-and-finding-his-own-roots 
In my family, according to 23andme, there is a range from 10-60%.

People who are 50% or more non-black may still choose to identify as AA and will generally be accepted as such as nearly all AAs. This has its roots in the one drop rule, but don’t assume someone with half or more European ancestry that identifies as AA is a believer in the one drop rule. They may embrace that racial identity out of familial or cultural solidarity. Gates himself is 50/50. It would be hard for anyone to argue convincingly that he isn’t AA.

Phenotype can be misleading when it comes to ancestry. Skip Gates’ series has made it clear that many well-known AA celebrities are 50% or more white despite not appearing “biracial” in terms of skin tone, hair texture, etc. we tend to have a stereotype of what “biracial” looks like. And it doesn’t fit everyone with the ancestry. It leaves out a lot of people who may appear to be mostly African or mostly (or entirely) European. There are commends like black people can’t have naturally blond or red hair, light eyes, or freckles although obviously some do! Then, there are people like my DD. She’s been called racially ambiguous and doesn’t [i]appear[/i] to be of African ancestry or so people keep telling her. She’s assumed Latino (though that isn’t a race), Middle Eastern (still not a race, technically), or South Asian. However, she identifies as AA.

“[i]Nearly two-thirds of people with a mixed-race background do not identify as multi- or biracial, according to a Pew Research Center study of Americans with at least two races in their background. There are a variety of factors—skin tone, hair color, eye color, where and how a person was raised—that may influence how a person of dual heritage classifies herself. In the Pew study, 47 percent of multiracial people who do not identify as such say it’s because they look and are perceived as a one race.[/i]”
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a15941992/biracial-in-america/

I don’t know Doria’s ancestry, but she’s likely at least partly European and 100% African-American.[/quote]

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