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Depends on the clerk. Depends on what the parents or hospital told them. Most likely the hospital officially reported those births to the National Center for Health Statistics as "Negro," but that wasn't necessarily what the clerk would write on the birth certificates for the family.

Hawaii wasn't like some other states in that regard. "Chinese," "Japanese," "Korean," "Filipino," and "Puerto Rican" appeared on Hawaiian birth certificates as races. "African" wouldn't have been out of place on that list, especially if the White Dunhams wanted to avoid the stigma a "Negro" father for their grandchild would have been in those days.

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Hawaii wasn't like some other states in that regard. "Chinese," "Japanese," "Korean," "Filipino," and "Puerto Rican" appeared on Hawaiian birth certificates as races. "African" wouldn't have been out of place on that list, especially if the White Dunhams wanted to avoid the stigma a "Negro" father for their grandchild would have been in those days.

The Dunhams weren't worried about a so-called stigma. Stanley Armour Dunham was close friends with Frank Marshall Davis.