generate questions: Americans with Sub-Saharan African ancestry for historical reasons: slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, one-eighth law, the one-drop rule of 20th-century legislation, have frequently been classified as black (historically) or African American, even if they have significant European American or Native American ancestry. As slavery became a racial caste, those who were enslaved and others of any African ancestry were classified by what is termed "hypodescent" according to the lower status ethnic group. Many of majority European ancestry and appearance "married white" and assimilated into white society for its social and economic advantages, such as generations of families identified as Melungeons, now generally classified as white but demonstrated genetically to be of European and sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Americans with African ancestry have always been classified as what race? {sep_token} What were slaves and others of African ancestry classified by what term? {sep_token} Melungeons are generally classified as white but what are they genetically what other races? {sep_token} What did many with European ancetry "marry white" and want to be part of the white society? {sep_token} Which Americans have been historically classified as African American or black? {sep_token} What caused lower classification status for African Americans? {sep_token} How did many multiracial Americans attain social and economic advantages? {sep_token} What are some historical reasons multiracial Americans have been classified as black? {sep_token} What is the group called who are genetically sub Saharan and European but are classified as white? {sep_token} What is Melungeon? {sep_token} What does it mean to have "marred white"? {sep_token} What were those with Sub-Saharan African ancestory classified as? {sep_token} What were slaves and Africans classified by? {sep_token}