"quadroons" and "octoroons" with Indonesians, and even here and there with Negritoes. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
Of "Crescent City" (1984), a tale set in New Orleans about a Jewish family during the Civil War, novelist Gay Courter wrote in The Washington Post: "It's all here: moss and mansions, languid afternoons and clandestine evenings, repressed old maids and irresistible quadroons, the glamour and gore of war, chance encounters and missed opportunities." ❋ Emma Brown (2010)
Blacks would announce whether they were octoroons or quadroons, loudly proclaiming their proximity to whiteness. ❋ Renee (2009)
These were half-breeds, quadroons, octaroons whom whites considered tainted by their black blood, but who were afforded and took special status and privilege due to the light skin they wore. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The agency defined those with one black parent as mulattos, one black grandparent as quadroons, and one black great-grandparent as octoroons. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In 1870, census officials noted that the "mulatto" category included "quadroons, octoroons and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood." ❋ Unknown (2008)
After the Montgomery County Council in Maryland added color to a law banning discrimination in public accommodations, citizens soon became aware that the new law would allow quadroons and octaroons who are confused about their racial identity to use the segregated bathroom or public shower facility of their choice. ❋ Zoe Brain (2008)
Are mulattos, quadroons and octaroons also included in your Black History Month celebrations? ❋ Dart Adams (2007)
O, begor, I want no expert nursis symaphy from yours broons quadroons and I can psoakoonaloose myself any time I want (the fog follow you all!) without your interferences or any other pigeonstealer. — ❋ Unknown (2006)
Enumerators were given this warning about the mulatto category, “The word is here generic, and includes quadroons, octoroons, and all persons having any perceptible trace of African blood.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
The south as you recall, brought us such terms as quadroons (1/4 black) and octaroon (1/8 black), etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As would Thomas Wolfe a century later, he loved the manswarm on the streets: “I am borne, and rubbed, and crowded along, and need scarcely trouble myself about using my own legs,” but disdained “Niggers, mulattoes, quadroons, Chinese” and other inconvenient life forms, including “trundle-bed trash”—children.13 ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
A squad of mulattos and quadroons, all branded with their license numbers, looking fit as ever. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Virginia and all those quadroons and octoroons and macaroons that decision has produced. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres, a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where African and French -- the dark and the white -- intermingle. ❋ Unknown (2000)
These are mulatto women, or quadroons, as they are familiarly known, and are distinguished for their fascinating beauty. ❋ Unknown (1953)
She was a mulatto, and her children were almost fair enough to pass for white -- probably they were quadroons, hardly any one would have suspected that they had only one quarter of colored blood in their veins. ❋ William Still (N/A)
Above the orchestra circle were four tiers, the first filled with the beautiful dames of the city; the second filled with a second array of beautiful women, attired like those of the first, with no apparent difference; yet these were the octoroons and quadroons, whose beauty and wealth were all the passports needed. ❋ Various (N/A)
❋ Fatassmuffinman (2003)
❋ Sharon (2003)
Harrison: “[Kane], what race are you?”
Kane: “Well my mum is [half black] and my dad is white so I must be [quadroon].”
Harrison: “Wow very interesting!” ❋ A1biino (2020)
Person 1: You are such a [quadroon].
Person 2: [Shut the fuck up], I am [black]. ❋ Boyo696969 (2020)
Dang, that [Rory] [Thompson] is one sexy, brown-footed [quadroon]! ❋ Quadroon Shawty (2008)
[Dhiren], Ben, [Henry] and [PK] got ever so close the other night and ended up quadrooning ❋ Dhiiiinnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaannn (2011)
My friend: hey is both of [your parents] [white]?
Me: no my parents are [mixed] and white I'm a quadroon ❋ The Teen Parent (2021)
[michael jackson] is a [quadroon]. ❋ La'Quinta (2008)
[Jacob's] mom is [half black] and his [dad] is completely black. Does this make him a reverse quadroon? ❋ Hbomb007 (2018)
