I am wondering why people who are born from white and black parents still called black. Sometimes even when they are only 1/3 or 1/4 black they are still called black.
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This is specific to the USA where the children coming from the rape of a female slave by the master were slaves themselves and therefore black in the racial structure, this meant they could be sold and support the slave society even after the triangular trade stopped. You have to consider that until the civil rights movement fought against the Jim Crow laws (American version of apartheid) blackness was less about skin colour and more about culture.
For comparison in the Spanish colonies a person with a white and a black parent would be called mulato and would have a different status in society from a person of full african heritage.
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