{"id":1146,"date":"2009-09-27T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2010-11-02T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T21:08:36","slug":"octoroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"octoroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quadroon, <em><strong>octoroon<\/strong><\/em> and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Octoroon means a person of fourth-generation black ancestry. Genealogically, it means one-eighth black. Typically an Octoroon has one great-grandparent who is of full African descent and seven great-grandparents who are not.<\/p>\n<p>hexadeca<em>roon<\/em> (1\/16th)<br \/>\ndotriaconta<em>roon<\/em> (1\/32)<br \/>\ntetrahexaconta<em>roon<\/em> (1\/64)<br \/>\noctaicosahecta<em>roon<\/em> (1\/128)<br \/>\nhexapentacontadicta<em>roon<\/em> (1\/256)<br \/>\ndodecapentacta<em>roon<\/em> (1\/512)<br \/>\ntetraicosakilia<em>roon<\/em> (1\/1,024)<br \/>\noctatetracontadilia<em>roon<\/em> (1\/2,048)<br \/>\nhexanonacontatetralia<em>roon<\/em> (1\/4,096)<br \/>\ndinonacontahectaoctalia<em>roon<\/em> (1\/8,192)<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IUPAC_numerical_multiplier\" target=\"_blank\">IUPAC numerical multipliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana&#8230; Octoroon means a person of fourth-generation black ancestry. Genealogically, it means one-eighth black. Typically an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,459,20],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-history","category-usa","tag-hypodescent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}