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  2. Mulatto - Wikipedia

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    Mulatto (/ m j uː ˈ l æ t oʊ /, / m ə ˈ l ɑː t oʊ /) (original Italian spelling) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry only. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is mulatta (Spanish: mulata).

  3. Yakub (Nation of Islam) - Wikipedia

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    A piece of this destroyed moon became the Earth, which was then populated by a community of surviving, morally righteous black people, some of whom settled in the city of Mecca. [1] Yakub was born a short distance outside the city, and was among the third of original black people who were discontented with life in this society. [2]

  4. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    In the 2000 US Census, "White" refers to "person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." [21] In the 2000 US Census, "Black or African American" refers to a "person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa." [21] The other three self-designated races are not labeled by color ...

  5. Multiracial people - Wikipedia

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    The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...

  6. Quadroon - Wikipedia

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    The word quadroon was borrowed from the French quarteron and the Spanish cuarterón, both of which have their root in the Latin quartus, meaning "a quarter".. Similarly, the Spanish cognate cuarterón is used to describe cuarterón de mulato or morisco (someone whose racial origin is three-quarters white and one-quarter black) and cuarterón de mestizo or castizo, (someone whose racial origin ...

  7. Symbolic racism - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic racism is a term that was coined by David Sears and John McConahay in 1973 [11] to explain why most White Americans supported principles of equality for Black Americans, but less than half were willing to support programs designed to implement these principles.

  8. The Black Dog Is a Real Bar — And It's Promoting ... - AOL

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    The Black Dog variant even included a lyric on the back, which read, “Old habits die screaming,” which connected back to Swift’s depression playlist that she created ahead of TTPD’s ...

  9. Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia

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    Anita Florence Hemmings, the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College, passed as white for socioeconomic reasons.. Racial passing occurred when a person who was categorized as black in regard to their race in the United States of America, sought to be accepted or perceived ("passed") as a member of another racial group, usually white.