Context: 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.

Question: Americans with African ancestry have always been classified as what race?
Answer: black (historically) or African American

Question: What were slaves and others of African ancestry classified by what term?
Answer: hypodescent

Question: Melungeons are generally classified as white but what are they genetically what other races?
Answer: European and sub-Saharan African ancestry

Question: What did many with European ancetry "marry white" and want to be part of the white society?
Answer: for its social and economic advantages

Question: Which Americans have been historically classified as African American or black?
Answer: Americans with Sub-Saharan African ancestry

Question: What caused lower classification status for African Americans?
Answer: slavery became a racial caste

Question: How did many multiracial Americans attain social and economic advantages?
Answer: Many of majority European ancestry and appearance "married white" and assimilated into white society

Question: What is the group called who are genetically sub Saharan and European but are classified as white?
Answer: Melungeons,

Question: What are some historical reasons multiracial Americans have been classified as black?
Answer: slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, one-eighth law, the one-drop rule of 20th-century legislation

Question: What is Melungeon?
Answer: genetically to be of European and sub-Saharan African ancestry.

Question: What does it mean to have "marred white"?
Answer: assimilated into white society

Question: What were slaves and Africans classified by?
Answer: hypodescent

Question: What were those with Sub-Saharan African ancestory classified as?
Answer: black (historically) or African American

Question: Who has frequently been classified as Hispanic?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What were people of European ancestry classified by?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kind of people assimilated into black society?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why did people choose not to assimilate into white society?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What families have been demonstrated genetically to be of Asian and African ancestry?
Answer: Unanswerable