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half-caste en · ADJ

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Etymology

From half- + caste.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, not-comparable) 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 en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From half- + caste.

Meanings

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:

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Relateds

half-breed · mixed-race