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The U.S. "race" notion asserts that somewhere along the path of gradually darkening complexion from Norway to Nigeria lies an imaginary line separating White folks from Black. There is no real boundary, of course; change is imperceptible at every point.
Nevertheless, U.S. folklore upholds four beliefs: discontinuity, that a single color-line exists; endogamy, that people should not marry across it; impermeability, that you cannot switch sides; and hypodescent, that you are born into your parents’ side of the line, no matter your actual appearance.
Other nations have beliefs about “race” but with regards to Africans and Europeans, all differ from the United States of today in at least one of those four ways. Also, U.S. beliefs about "race" differed significantly in the past, especially in Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, and among tri-racial isolate communities of the Appalachians. This group is meant for scholarly discussion of when, where, how, and why the odd U.S. version of the "race" notion unfolded as it did over the past five centuries.
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