Wow! This "blood quantum" system of racial determination is a bit reminiscent of the way black ancestry was determined in the Old South. I'm put in mind of Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson, in which two boys—one born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry, and the other white, born to the master of the house— are switched at infancy. Each then grows into the other's social role.
Richard
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