Do people of mixed race feel caught between two stools or are they nestling in the best of both worlds? As delegates from more than 150 countries gather at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, Outlook examines inter-racial relationships.
Britain currently has one of the highest rates of inter-racial relationships in the western world, with 50% of all black children born having one white parent. Whether we view such unions as positive multiculturalism or not, the truth is that mixed race relationships are a fact of life.
So why is it still so hard to find a suitable term to describe mixed race people? Is it right to say that someone is black or white? Let alone half-caste, bi-racial or coffee-coloured?
And what do the children from inter-racial relationships signify in 21st century Britain?