mixed-race

• mixed race

mixed-race (not comparable)

1. (of a person) Having genetic characteristics of two or more different races.
   • 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^[2], archived from the original on 3 December 2021:

     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.

In 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 75 general population respondents who identified as “mixed race” and one who did not, none found the term “mixed race” offensive and 32 indicated it was a preferred term. Out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, six found the term “mixed race” offensive and 176 indicated it was a preferred term.^[1]

• mixed heritage
• half-caste