people as dominant or superior and others as subordinate or inferior, hypodescent refers to the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union to the...

Agnatic seniority Derbfine Family name Historical inheritance systems Hypodescent Hyperdescent Matrilineality Matriname Order of succession Patricide Patrilocal...

considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different...

socially dominant of the parents' races. Hyperdescent is the opposite of hypodescent (the practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry in the more...

and restrictions. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed...

identity of the minority parent, which reflected social practices of hypodescent. Black social workers had influenced court decisions on regulations related...

people of color in the United States, they created a social order of hypodescent, in which they assigned mixed-race children to the lower-status groups...

recognition of their identity and it also contributed to a binary culture of hypodescent, in which mixed-race persons were often classified as part of the group...

States. In 1924, Virginia passed the Racial Integrity Act that codified hypodescent or the "one-drop rule, suggesting that anyone with any trace of African...

categories (see cleanliness of blood, casta, apartheid in South Africa, hypodescent). Below are some census definitions of White, which may differ from the...

classify as black a person of any known African ancestry. This practice of hypodescent was not put into law until the early 20th century. Legally, the definition...

one had to have perceived "pure" White ancestry. The one-drop rule or hypodescent rule refers to the convention of defining a person as racially black...

identity and included the "biracial" option on the census. The concept of hypodescent refers to the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between...

imagination, but offers no path toward resolution." Children of the plantation Hypodescent Partus sequitur ventrem Anti-miscegenation law Slaves in the Family Mulatto...

influence and laws making slavery a racial caste, and later practices of hypodescent, white colonists and settlers tended to classify persons of mixed African...

Most present-day descendants of the original Marabou are products of hypodescent and, subsequently, mostly of African in ancestry. The country also has...

colloquially synonymous with half-caste, terminology that is characteristic of hypodescent, which occurs when offspring of mixed-race unions are assigned to the...

following accusations of colorism. Colorism Color terminology for race Hypodescent Light-skinned Louisiana Creole Indian South Africans Baster Mixed-race...

considered children born to a white father to be white, in a type of hypodescent classification, although the Native mother and tribe might care for them...

state records as black, under what is known as the "one-drop rule" of hypodescent. The binary classifications required individuals to be classified as...

classified as white. This was the opposite of the later "one-drop rule" of hypodescent in the United States, whereby persons of any known African ancestry were...

she found they had any black (or African) ancestry, an application of hypodescent rules, and did not notify people of her actions. Among the practices...

(history) Endogamy History of Bob Jones University Historical race concepts Hypodescent Judicial aspects of race in the United States Loving Day Mixed Race Day...

these mixed-race people were often half white or more, institutions of hypodescent and the 20th-century one drop rule in some states – particularly in the...

all free people of color were classified together as black, in the hypodescent classification resulting from the racial caste of slavery.[citation needed]...

birth certificate versus a death certificate. Different rules (such as hypodescent vs. hyperdescent) classify the same people differently, and for various...

contemporary United States, a 2010 Harvard study showed that the practice of hypodescent classification persists. That is, biracial persons are typically classified...

all people of some African ancestry as black, under the principle of hypodescent, later known as the one-drop rule. Some 19th-century categorization schemes...

process of racialization and ethnoracial mixture, "Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States...

she found they had any black (or African) ancestry, an application of hypodescent rules, and did not notify people of her actions. In other cases, if people...