octoroon
noun as in strong fondness
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Example:Legal restrictions on miscegenation laws, which included prohibitions on marriages between octoroons and non-blacks, were common before the Civil War.
Definition:Mixture of races or intermarriage between people of different races
Example:Genetic testing can reveal mixed ancestry, such as the octoroon classification.
Definition:Relating to genetics; the study of heredity; the branch of biology concerned with the examination of genes and heredity
Example:Racial classifications, including octoroons, were used to enforce social segregation and legal restrictions.
Definition:Relating to or based on race; especially, relating to or denoting differences between different groups of people
Example:Some miscegenationists argued that laws against marriage between octoroons and non-blacks were unjust and discriminatory.
Definition:A person who advocates or supports miscegenation
Example:The octoroon was considered a ‘mixed race’ in historical racial classifications.
Definition:Made up of or containing a mixture of things
Example:In the 19th century, octoroons were classified based on their perceived mixed ancestry within racial hierarchies.
Definition:The act or result of classifying or classifying into groups; the grouping of individuals or things into classes according to common characteristics
Example:Ethnologists used the term octoroon to classify mixed-race individuals within their studies of human societies.
Definition:The social science that deals with the study of the divisions and classification of humankind into races, the description of racial characteristics, and the study of the nature and origins of human culture
Example:Octoroons often struggled with racial identity in a society that used strict classifications such as the one associated with the term.
Definition:The characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is; the fact of being who or what a person or thing is
Example:The term octoroon was often used in a derogatory and oppressive manner during the period of racial segregation.
Definition:Expressing or implying contempt or disapproval; offensive; it expresses or implies contempt or disapproval
Example:Adverse racial classifications, including those involving octoroons, could lead to adverse outcomes such as social exclusion.
Definition:Favoring one party, individual, or group over another; unfair in a way that adversely affects someone
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