Back Квартерон Bulgarian Cuarterón de mulato Spanish Quarterono IO クアドルーン Japanese 쿼드룬 Korean Quadroon (1/4 negro) Portuguese Квартерон Russian Quadroon SIMPLE Квартерон Ukrainian 夸特龍 Chinese
In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one-quarter African/Aboriginal and three-quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and quintroon for one-sixteenth black.
Governments of the time sometimes incorporated the terms in law, defining rights and restrictions. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate.[1] The racial designations refer specifically to the number of full-blooded African ancestors or equivalent, emphasizing the quantitative least, with quadroon signifying that a person has one-quarter black ancestry.
- ^ Kottak, Conrad Phillip (2009). "Chapter 11: Ethnicity and Race". Mirror for Humanity a Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 238.