- Jim Crow Laws, another way Africans were selected out for different treatment- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Homer Plessy went on a train for white people and he argues that the government has no right to label one person as white and another as colored because colored blood was not discernable (he was 1/8 African). Lost the case --> many legal peculiarities that we live with today. The 'separate but equal' doctrine enhanced the idea the colored blood existed and could establish 'Blackness' in that it held that 1/32nd 'Black blood' meant you should be categorized as 'Black'

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