redbone

plural redbones

1. USA dark-red or tan coonhound.
2. LouisianaUSAn African American with light skin with red undertones.

   Redbones are commonly supposed to represent a fusion of the Indian, Negro, and white races […]

   1936, LA bulletin: Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University & A. & M. College, numbers 268-293, page 13

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   The store attracted countless colorful characters, including Native Americans, wild-cowboy Texans, Chinese laborers, and “redbones,” the offspring of African Americans and Native Americans.

   2009, Janet Allured, Judith F. Gentry, Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, page 122

   I can joke about being a redbone, and I am that. But most folks don't make no distinction between a redbone and a colored man, unless it's to their benefit.

   2012, Gerald Duff, Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League, page 238

plural Redbones

1. A member of any of several specific North American ethnic groups called Redbones