Since the 19th century, there has been a tendency in the U.S. to classify offspring of racially-mixed couples as belonging to the race of the parent with the lowest racial status. This is called the:

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The hypodescent concept is the practice of assigning individuals with mixed racial ancestry to the racial group that is socially subordinate. This means that if a person has one parent who is a member of a socially oppressed racial group and the other parent is not, the child would be classified as a member of the oppressed group. This concept has been used in the U.S. since the 19th century to rationalize and maintain racial hierarchies.

Since the 19th Century, There Has Been a Tendency in the U.S