Social highjack in Lynchburg Virginia & Amherst County The “Black Americans of today” include many people whose ancestors would not always have been classified as “Black,” because U.S. law and census rules repeatedly redefined racial categories and forced mixed or Indigenous people into the “Negro/Black” box over time. This process of reclassification created a larger, more heterogeneous Black population on paper than the underlying ancestry alone would suggest. ## Legal rules and hypodescent St

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