Before the civil rights cases that included Hernandez, Brown, and Al-Khazraji; it was a more homogenous country. The binary approach to race was feasible because within its smaller population, individuals within the United States were typically of a subset of Caucasian or African descent. With the ideal of a melting pot, the ideology of the American continent has been altered where a dichotomy of black and white is no longer feasible. Moreover, the distinct claim that one can label an individual’s ancestry is becoming more ambiguous as the United States and the continent intermingle to create many mixtures of what we as a society term race. The relevance of cases such as Hernandez and contemporary civil rights highlights that at one time the
