Talk:Quintroon

what's the term for a person who is 15/16 black and 1/16 white? Gringo300 21:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * "Black" These terms existed, to the best of my knowledge, only in regards to such fractions as 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 black Nik42 06:37, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This depends partly on the country. In the U.S., Nik42's answer is right: anything other than 1/x black was considered just "black" with no further annotations.  In Central and South America and parts of the Carribbean, however, mulattos formed a separate social/ethnic group, and included people in a various range of mixed-race ancestry.  The same is true of the Coloureds in South Africa.  --Delirium 07:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)