Does anyone claims to be Quadroon?

Question:I was wondering because my son is a quarter black and the defination I found on the name was "A person having one-quarter Black ancestry". I was wondering how people claim this?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I was wondering because my son is a quarter black and the defination I found on the name was "A person having one-quarter Black ancestry". I was wondering how people claim this?

It's a rather old-fashioned word now, along with "octoroon," which is what any grandchild of yours will be if your son marries a white woman. (The novelist Alexandre Dumas pere was a quadroon, and his son Alexandre fils was an octoroon.) You might google both words and then decide whether you want to apply them to anyone now or whether you'd rather simply refer to your son, if the occasion arises, as "interracial."

As for Louisiana, I remember reading long ago that most southern states had legal definitions of "white"--few of them the same. However, Louisiana does seem to be the most uptight about the matter.

I think this is pretty much a Louisiana distinction. As far as I know Louisiana was the only state that "defined" a white man. It was originally proposed that someone with no more than 1/152 black ancestry or 1/156th black ancestry was white. One Congressman from Orleans parish objected since he was 1/76 or 1/78 and so that is where they drew the line. I live in S. E. Texas and we have people moving here from Louisiana that actually think it is some law of genetics and it isn't. After the Civil War, states passed laws forbidding marriage between black and white and since churches want to abide by Civil Law in marriages the Catholic Church ask the Louisiana legislature to define a white man. I don't know that any other state passed such a law.

All this shows is that race is something very political.

Considering the origins of the term I wouldn't use it.

" The terms mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon originated with the racial policies of European colonizers in the Americas, especially the Spanish. Because civil rights and responsibilities were based directly on the degree of European blood that a person had, such classifications were highly elaborated, and minor distinctions in ancestry were carefully recorded. While these terms have highly precise definitions, in actual practice they were often used based on impressions of skin color rather than definite knowledge of ancestry." The American Heritage? Dictionary

Why continue the separation of people by using labels like these?