Hyperdescent is the practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry in the more socially dominant of the parents' races. Hyperdescent is the opposite...

of a mixed union to the subordinate group. The opposite practice is hyperdescent, in which children are assigned to the race that is considered dominant...

branch Derbfine Family name Historical inheritance systems Hypodescent Hyperdescent Matrilineality Matriname Order of succession Patricide Patrilocal residence...

diminished the frequency of intersections between legitimate children, hyperdescent, and suffrage. In New Brunswick, Sarah Manning, of St. John, was president...

passing in her own life. Walter Francis White belonged to a middle-class hyperdescent African-American chattel slave descended family who remained black-identified...

versus a death certificate. Different rules (such as hypodescent vs. hyperdescent) classify the same people differently, and for various reasons some people...

province. The role of Prince Edward Island "amalgamation" debates and hyperdescent ideas on "universal" suffrage in this accelerated moment for Maritime...

suffrage, and majority government became entangled in the biopolitics of hyperdescent. This Opposition inaugurated a critical period in Prince Edward Island...

dissemination of Clear Grit ideas for "universal" suffrage, premised on hyperdescent across all provincial electoral districts. According to Shaw, Liberal...