quadroons

"quadroons" and "octoroons" with Indonesians, and even here and there with Negritoes.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Of "Crescent City" (1984), a tale set in New Orleans about a Jewish family during the Civil War, novelist Gay Courter wrote in The Washington Post: "It's all here: moss and mansions, languid afternoons and clandestine evenings, repressed old maids and irresistible quadroons, the glamour and gore of war, chance encounters and missed opportunities."

Belva Plain, 95 Emma Brown 2010

Blacks would announce whether they were octoroons or quadroons, loudly proclaiming their proximity to whiteness.

Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009

Blacks would announce whether they were octoroons or quadroons, loudly proclaiming their proximity to whiteness.

Hueism Blocks The Path To Unity Renee 2009

These were half-breeds, quadroons, octaroons whom whites considered tainted by their black blood, but who were afforded and took special status and privilege due to the light skin they wore.

Leonce Gaiter: At Obama's Rise, Praise King's Movement, and Bury It 2009

The agency defined those with one black parent as mulattos, one black grandparent as quadroons, and one black great-grandparent as octoroons.

Racial Identity's Gray Area 2008

In 1870, census officials noted that the "mulatto" category included "quadroons, octoroons and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood."

'Sellout' 2008

After the Montgomery County Council in Maryland added color to a law banning discrimination in public accommodations, citizens soon became aware that the new law would allow quadroons and octaroons who are confused about their racial identity to use the segregated bathroom or public shower facility of their choice.

I'm Back Zoe Brain 2008

Are mulattos, quadroons and octaroons also included in your Black History Month celebrations?

The Jig Is Up AKA Kill That Noise Dart Adams 2007

O, begor, I want no expert nursis symaphy from yours broons quadroons and I can psoakoonaloose myself any time I want (the fog follow you all!) without your interferences or any other pigeonstealer. —

Finnegans Wake 2006