President Barack Obama's mother was a white woman from Kansas and his father was a black man from Kenya. What deeply embedded concept of racial division is revealed by the way people regard his race and even debate his birthplace?

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Hypodescent is the concept that explains the societal tendency to classify a person with mixed racial heritage into the racial category of the minority or socially subordinate group. This concept is evident in how President Obama is often identified primarily as African American, despite his biracial heritage.

President Barack Obama's Mother Was a White Woman from Kansas