Octoroon


human being of 1/8 african-american origin.
d-mn yo skin be mad light? how you blaque?

i’m an octoroon.
a person having one-eighth black ancestry; the offspring of a quadroon and a white
“all the way up until 1986, my barrac–n played home to a coffle of twelve: 3 quadroons, 3 octoroons, 2 pickanninies, 2 mexicans, a mulatto, a ch-nk, and a roan-colored albanian hobo named noodles. and i’ll be goddammned if those weren’t the best days of my life.”
americans of mixed ancestry. mixed european/african americans who appear european. many are considered caucasian of european background, who are in fact of mixed european and african ancestry (albeit 2-3 generations past).
rarely mistaken for “spanish”. whom are clearly mixed with spanish/african/indian
“no one knew she was an octoroon, her grandfather was half african”.
joan bennett, constance bennett, fredi washington.

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