mixed-race

adj

mixed-race

adj
1

Of a person, having genetic characteristics of two or more different races.

  • 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:
Related terms
half-caste, mixed heritage

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.