Mixed-race individuals are classified as black under the hypodescent rule

Evidence

This schema is asymmetrical as to black and white inheritance. It logically precludes the possibility of mixed race because cases of mixed race, in which individuals have both black and white forebears, are automatically designated as cases of black race. (Zack, 1993:5) In an unsystematic fashion, the U. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 721

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hypodescent rules make mixed-race people statistically impossible to classify as anything but black — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 721; Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 340; Mixed individuals categorically shift toward whichever mono-racial prototype is absent — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 51 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Hypodescent rules make mixed-race people statistically impossible to classify as anything but black #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 721
• Legal one-drop rules marked even distant African ancestry as black #corroborates (0.90) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 537
• Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen #expands (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 340
• Assigned racial categories cage black people into self-occupancy #expands (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 545
• African American Muslims are racialized as Black before being seen as Muslim #exemplifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 116
• Mixed individuals categorically shift toward whichever mono-racial prototype is absent #qualifies (0.75) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 51
• A light-skinned person’s racial identity can be chosen and changed by naming #contradicts (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2497