Birth certificates and permitted birthing practices confer or deny social standing

Evidence

Besides sexual routines, permissibilities and prohibitions, the examples are more or less pervasive. Consider birthing practices licensed and prohibited. Similarly, birth certificates define what and how one is named and thus recognized legally and administratively, how such recognition or its failure furnishes social standing. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1708

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Birth-place restricts freedom, whether this enslaves or enables; Native Americans restricted births to keep class standing, enabling biological replacement by immigrants — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 853