Mixed-race

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having genetic characteristics of two or more different races. not-comparable

    "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."

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"Everybody in my family is genotypically and phenotypically mixed-race."

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