In public schools, at least here in CA, race is avoided explicitly for the reasons you can see in the comic. On paperwork, you can mark “multiethnic” or other or decline to state and teachers violating that can get in trouble. And if you’re Latino/Hispanic, that tends to supercede anything, which is kinda fair since you very much can be white, black, or multiethnic Latino.
So yeah, your designation would probably be “multiethnic” now. But that’s just officially; as the other commenter says, it’s one-drop rule if you look black (or Asian, or Latino). My daughter is half Asian but she looks extremely vague, so I’ve seen people guess Italian, middle eastern, white Latino, and so on.
Oh and fun fact, in Japanese they call kids like my daughter “half” or “ha-fu” which is very much derogatory in many places in Japan.
In public schools, at least here in CA, race is avoided explicitly for the reasons you can see in the comic. On paperwork, you can mark “multiethnic” or other or decline to state and teachers violating that can get in trouble. And if you’re Latino/Hispanic, that tends to supercede anything, which is kinda fair since you very much can be white, black, or multiethnic Latino.
So yeah, your designation would probably be “multiethnic” now. But that’s just officially; as the other commenter says, it’s one-drop rule if you look black (or Asian, or Latino). My daughter is half Asian but she looks extremely vague, so I’ve seen people guess Italian, middle eastern, white Latino, and so on.
Oh and fun fact, in Japanese they call kids like my daughter “half” or “ha-fu” which is very much derogatory in many places in Japan.