"Quarteron" redirects here. For the French kickboxer, see Patrice Quarteron.
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.[1] 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.
^Kottak, Conrad Phillip (2009). "Chapter 11: Ethnicity and Race". Mirror for Humanity a Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 238.
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