[PoideAdelereX]

Latin American concepts of race go back to the "racial hierarchy" or old Latin America, which had people of mixed ancestry getting a mixed ancestry getting more rights than "pure blooded" non-Europeans, modern "racial systems" in the Americas reflect old "classest" models. In the US, they for the most part considered any people with known African decent to be legally "black", though i'm not sure about free people of African decent prior to the end of slavery. In highschool I remember reading something about illegitimate "mulattoo" children. It said the son of a "white" slave owner was usually not claimed by the father, and therefore left with the slaves, but if the mother gave birth to an partially African child, the kid may be raised by the "white" family if they choose. I'm not sure if that was referring to the US or a Latin American country.