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white person
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun white person has 1 sense
- white person(n = noun.person) caucasian, white - a member of the Caucasoid race; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has particulars: aryan, circassian, paleface, semite, cassite, kassite, elamite, white man, white woman, poor white trash, white trash, honkey, honkie, honky, whitey, wasp, white anglo-saxon protestant
is a member of caucasian race, caucasoid race, white people, white race
CIDE DICTIONARY
white person,
A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256 ).
"In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect (as of 1913): one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio). Since the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960's and 1970's, the term has little legal significance -- for some purposes, as in filling out questionnaires, a person's race is whatever the person claims it to be."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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