octoroons

If Obama had married a white woman, and all his children married white partners, their children would be "octoroons," i.e. black, or the nastier word if you prefer.

Asked Whether Advisers Are Pushing Wright Story, Hillary Demurs 2009

Creoles are themselves usually (not always) octoroons.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

I'm tired of all these octoroons calling themselves black, and I know you must be too.

Embarassed 2 B Azn 2007

Blacks would announce whether they were octoroons or quadroons, loudly proclaiming their proximity to whiteness.

Hueism Blocks The Path To Unity Renee 2009

Blacks would announce whether they were octoroons or quadroons, loudly proclaiming their proximity to whiteness.

Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009

In 1870, census officials noted that the "mulatto" category included "quadroons, octoroons and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood."

'Sellout' 2008

The agency defined those with one black parent as mulattos, one black grandparent as quadroons, and one black great-grandparent as octoroons.

Racial Identity's Gray Area 2008

Enumerators were given this warning about the mulatto category, “The word is here generic, and includes quadroons, octoroons, and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood.”

The Social Construction of Our Ever Changing Racial Categories 2006

Virginia and all those quadroons and octoroons and macaroons that decision has produced.

Some more stuff Amp is reading 2004

Quadroons and octoroons had high fevers and sweated blood, but they nearly all recovered.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004