half-caste

adj, noun — 2 senses

half-caste

adj

Etymology From half- + caste.

1

Derogatory Of mixed racial descent.

It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:

half-caste

noun

Etymology From half- + caste.

1

Derogatory A person of mixed racial descent.

AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:

Related terms: mixed-race, half-breed

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