"Mulatto" "Quadroon" "Octaroon" also usually indicated a precise percentage of ethnicity.
I'm not sure they would apply, here. I just use mixed heritage/ethnicity.
None of these terms are precise or necessarily accurate, particularly the former. The 'mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon,' terms were just the prejudiced southern way of ridiculously, pretentiously and condescendingly attempting to label offspring of 'black'/'white' people, which is obviously an offensive practice. Again, it was simply a method used to separate and divide people, and to keep a portion of the population subjugated. I prefer using 'ethnic background,' rather than 'mixed' because in fact, we are all 'mixed,' (right
@Vagabond 
) despite the term being erroneously used mostly to describe the offspring of 'black'/'white' unions. Actually, the terms 'black' and 'white' are presumptuous as well. And
'precise percentage of ethnicity' is inapropos to cite in connection with prejudicial 18th and 19th century southern labeling practices. It's akin to the writers in the late 1800s who studied human skulls and created lies and fictions about the intelligence of people who were enslaved. Again that was another method of subjugation and an effort to pretend that the dominating/domineering group was superior, which some people unfortunately, yet unsurprisingly still believe to this day. It's hard giving up a faux claim to superiority.
It may sometimes be hard to remember, but there's only the human race. And there are only 4 blood types among humans, which are not based upon family origins. This fact, along with the knowledge uncovered via DNA technology tells us that random human individuals can be more similar to each other than they are to their respective ethnic population groups:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/ I do hope some people will take the opportunity to at least peruse a few of the books I listed earlier, or not as everyone pleases.
@aftershocks I am pretty sure that we
all have African ancestry.
Aha, as I've previously posted, that fact is pretty clear
@Vagabond, despite being so hard for some people to swallow and to fully understand.
Is it becoming a thing these days, ya think? Do you know your exact percentages of African blood?
Interestingly enough, Troian Bellisario's mother, Deborah Pratt, is a fair-skinned African American (Louisiana Creole, which includes French, African, other European, perhaps some Native American), and her father is part Persian and part Italian. Troian identifies as 'white' period. Looking at her, most people wouldn't hesitate to think that she's simply Italian/ Caucasian, eh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-NQfQ4ad70 Celebrities who have a parent with African ancestry
Today, everyone can do a DNA test to determine rough percentages of their tribal ethnicities, which for some may not lead directly back to Africa necessarily re immediate ancestry. But the fact still remains that our ancient human forefathers and foremothers originated in Africa and dispersed over time throughout the world. In the very ancient beginnings, the migration to other climates led to changes in skin pigmentation and physical characteristics. Wow, 400 years of 'racial prejudice' based mainly on skin color differences that occurred due to variant physical environments (climate, weather, geological conditions) and resultant genetic mutations that favored survival. Ancient humans, remember, were more exposed to the elements. They did not live in the type of dwellings that dot the human landscape of today. In addition, tribal groups across the African continent have always looked different from each other physically. It's rather weird and ironic that melanin is an important, beneficial substance, while those who possess it in substantial quantities have in recent centuries been so reviled and discriminated against.
(not to the Crown). Any "gift" of such property comes with strings attached. 
She perhaps also could have taken the step to pass for white, as many fair-skinned 'colored, Negro, African-American' persons (take your pick) did way back-in-the-day most often for economic reasons, and/or simply for the ability to live in a nice neighborhood or get a decent job for which they were often well-educated to perform but were most often refused to even apply for, etc.
