SOC 019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quadroon
9 Sep 2016
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Biracial people can be psychologically traumatized because they don"t always feel accepted by either race they are classified as. Susie guillory phipps case (1982-1983): 1/5 black in louisiana you were considers black and not white. She argued against this law stating that she is white and eventually lost the case. Interracial dating was not allowed in many schools and some universities had rules that would allow them to expelled students if they were in an interracial relationship. The us might take on the hawaiian views on race where is there no concern for skin color because there are so many people of mixed race. There is no universal definition of blackness it is defined by the people with the power to do this (e. g. white people, scientists, the federal government) In 1930: mulatto was dropped from the census around the time of jim crow segregation because anyone who it multiracial would be considered black in order to keep segregation.
