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mixed race

mixed race is the alternative form of mixed-race.

Meaning of mixed-race

Adjective

mixed-race (not comparable)

  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
    Synonyms:
    mixed-breed

Questions about mixed race

What is mixed race the alternative form of?
Mixed race is the alternative form of mixed-race.

Words near mixed race in the dictionary

  1. mixed perspective
  2. mixed picture
  3. mixed pictures
  4. mixed plate
  5. mixed plates
  6. mixed race
  7. mixed raster content
  8. mixed reaction
  9. mixed reactions
  10. mixed realities
  11. mixed reality

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