To Kill a Mockingbird

According to Jem, how does their society define who is black? How does he answer Scout when she asks how to tell whether or not someone is black?

Only in chapter 16-17

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“That’s what I thought,” said Jem, “but around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black. Hey, look—”

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