"hyperdescent" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hyper- + descent",
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      "expansion": "hyperdescent (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Multiracial",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Joel Perlmann, The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals",
          "text": "In contrast, American Indians have generally been identified by hyperdescent, a principle that stipulates some minimum amount of ancestry as a necessary condition for qualification.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "The practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry into the more socially dominant of the parents' races."
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        "uncountable"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "hyperdescent"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnt"
    }
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  "word": "hyperdescent"
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      "word": "hypodescent"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "hyper- + descent",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Multiracial"
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          "ref": "2002, Joel Perlmann, The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals",
          "text": "In contrast, American Indians have generally been identified by hyperdescent, a principle that stipulates some minimum amount of ancestry as a necessary condition for qualification.",
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        "The practice of classifying a child of mixed race ancestry into the more socially dominant of the parents' races."
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