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What (who) is quadroon - definition

PERSON WITH ONE QUARTER AFRICAN AND THREE QUARTERS EUROPEAN ANCESTRY

Octoroon; Quintroon; Hexadecaroon; Octaroon; Cuarterón; Octoroom; Quadroons; Octoroons; Quintroons; Hexadecaroons; Quarteroon; Terceron

Quadroon

·noun The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

quadroon

[kw?'dru:n]

¦ noun a person whose parents are a mulatto and a white person and who is therefore one-quarter black by descent.

Origin

C18: via Fr. from Sp. cuarteron, from cuarto 'quarter'; later assimilated to words beginning with quadri-.

Quadroon

In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African/Aboriginal and three quarters European ancestry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

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Quadroon

In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African/Aboriginal and three quarters European ancestry.

Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and quintroon for one-sixteenth black.

Governments of the time sometimes incorporated the terms in law, defining rights and restrictions. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate. The racial designations refer specifically to the number of full-blooded African ancestors or equivalent, emphasizing the quantitative least, with quadroon signifying that a person has one-quarter black ancestry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

Examples of use of quadroon

1. Truman Capote described it without ever seeing it as that quadroon cock, a purported 11in caf–au–lait sinker, thick as a mans wrist.

2. In 1850 came "mulatto," followed two decades later by "octoroon" and "quadroon." Since 1'77, the federal government has used the same racial categories on census and other forms: black, white, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Asian or Pacific Islander.