We must stop categorizing biracial and multiracial demographics as one group in order to better understand and, in turn, accept people for who they are seen through the history of biracial and the judgement of physical perception. Multiracial identity has a deep and painful past in American history. During the Antebellum Era in the South, countless slave children were mixed race, half black and half white. Their black companions rejected them for being less black and white fathers did not claim them as their own due to their own selfish reasons and matriarchal genealogy. Matriarchal genealogy expressed that the mother determined the child's status of slave or free, used as a way to keep the child a slave at birth. Even after slavery was abolished, biracials had no place to belong. After the brief period of
We must stop categorizing biracial and multiracial demographics as one group in order to better understand and, in turn, accept people for who they are seen through the history of biracial and the judgement of physical perception. Multiracial identity has a deep and painful past in American history. During the Antebellum Era in the South, countless slave children were mixed race, half black and half white. Their black companions rejected them for being less black and white fathers did not claim them as their own due to their own selfish reasons and matriarchal genealogy. Matriarchal genealogy expressed that the mother determined the child's status of slave or free, used as a way to keep the child a slave at birth. Even after slavery was abolished, biracials had no place to belong. After the brief period of