Half-caste
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Half-caste is an adjective meaning (derogatory) Of mixed racial descent.
Meaning
(derogatory) Of mixed racial descent.
More Meanings
- (derogatory) A person of mixed racial descent.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- half-castes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include half-breed, half-elven, mestee, hyphenated, redskinned, colored.
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