• Afatasi: Mixed ancestry between Samoan and White
• Afrasian: Mixed ancestry between an African and Asian
• Afro-Asian: Mixed ancestry between an African and Asian
• Afro-European: Mixed heritage between Africa and Europe
• Africasian: Mixed ancestry between an African and Asian
• Ainoco:Mixed ancestry between White and Japanese
• Amerasian: Mixed ancestry between American and an Asian
• Amalgamation: Archaic term for the intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races
• Anglo-Asian: Mixed ancestry between an English and Asian
• Anglo-Burmese: Mixed ancestry between Burmese and European
• Anglo-Indian: Mixed ancestry between an English and Indian
• Atlantic-Creole: Mixed ancestry between European and African
• Bastard: A person of mixed blood
• Baster: People with a mixed racial and ethnic heritage
• Biracial: People of white and black origins
• Blackanese: Mixed Black and Asian
• Blackinese: Mixed ancestry between Black and Chinese
• Blacktino: Mixed of Black and Latino
• Black Dutch: People with mixed racial. cultural and ethnic heritage
• Black Indians: Mixed heritage between African and Native American
• Blasian: Mixed ancestry between Black and Asian
• Blaxican: Mixed ancestry between Black and Mexican
• Brown Skin: A political, racial, ethnic, societal, and cultural classification not limited to people of mixed heritage.
• Bruin-ou: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Bruinmense: People with mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Burgher People: Mixed ancestry between Europeans and Sri Lankans
• Bushie: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Cablinasian: Causcasian/Black/American Indian/Asian Mix
• Caboclo: Mixed ancestry between White and Amerindian
• Cafuzo: Mixed ancestry between Black and Amerindian
• Capie: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Castizo: Mixed ancestry between White and Mestizo
• Chewish: Mixed ancestry between a Jew and Chinese
• Chestnut Ridge People: see Melungeon
• Chindian: Mixed ancestry between the Chinese and Indian
• Cholo: Mixed ancestry between American Indian and Black African
• Chino: Mixed Asian and African American ancestry
• Coffee Coloured: People of mixed race with a brownish skin texture
• Colored: People of mixed blood or black
• Coloured: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Con lai: Half-breed
• Coolie: Mixed ancestry between Black and Asian Indian
• Creole peoples: Locally-born people with foreign ancestry
• Creoles of color: Mixed-race blacks residing in the Gulf Coast and Louisiana area of the pre-existing indigenous population of Spanish Guinean originating from the island of Fernando Pó
• Daburu: The mix of races, cultures and ethnicities
• Dougla: Mixed race typically African and Asian India
• Eurafrican: African and European ancestry
• Eurasian: Mixed ancestry between a European and Asian
• Jingoism: Judging one’s own country as superior to others – an extreme type of nationalism.
• Gado Gado: Mixed
• Goffals: Mixed ancestry between Ndebele/Shona and White
• Griqua: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Haafu or Hafu:  Half Japanese
• Halfbloed: Mixed Blood
• Half-blood: A person of mixed blood
• Half-breed: A person of mixed blood
• Half-caste: People of mixed caste
• Half-Chat: People of white and black origins
• Halfling: People with a mixed ancestry, racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Halfrican: Half African/ Half White
• Halvsie: Mixed Japanese Hapa: Half Hawaiian or half Asian, half Caucasian
• Hapa: A person of mixed Asian or Pacific Islander racial/ethnic heritage
• Hasian: Half Asian
• Honhyeol: Mixed blood
• Hotnot: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Hun xue: Mixed blood
• Hybrid: Fusion or mix of race, ancestry, race, culture and ethnicity
• Indo: Mixed ancestry between a European and an Asian
• Kablungajuit: Mixed ancestry between White and Inuit
• Kailoma or Vasu: Mixed ancestry between European and Fijian
• Kleurling: People with a mixed racial, cultural and ethnic heritage
• Lai Má: American mix
• Lobo: Mixed ancestry between Black and Amerindian
• Louisiana Creole: People of mixed ancestry
• Luk kreung: Mixed racial heritage, literally means half-child
• Lumbee: Products of mixed unions
• Malaynese: Mixed ancestry between Malay and Chinese or Japanese
• Marabou: Mixed ancestry between black African/European and an Amerindian, specifically the native Taíno
• Melungeon: Mixed European, African, and Native American ancestry
• Miscegenation: Mixing of different racial groups
• Métis: A person born to parents who belong to different groups
• Mischling: Mixed person
• Mixedasians: Mixed Person
• Mixed: People of mixed origins
• Mixed ancestry: People of mixed ancestry
• Mixed-Bloods: Individuals of mixed European and Native American ancestry who are not of Hispanic descent
• Mixed race: People of white and black origins
• Mongrel: Fusion or mix of ethnicity
• Morisco: Mixed ancestry between Caucasian and Mulatto
• Mudblood: A person of mixblood
• Mulatto: Mixed ancestry between white European and black African
• Mule: Fusion or mix of horse and donkey
• Multiethnic: People of mixed ethnicity
• Multiracial: People of white and black origins
• Mutant: A mutation or mix between race, culture and ethnicity
• Mutt: Fusion or mix of ethnicity
• Nguoi Lai: Mixed-race person
• Octoroon: Mixed ancestry between a Quadroon and a European
• Pardo: Mixed ancestry between for black and white
• Passing: A person of mixed-race heritage assimilating to the white majority
• Peranakan: Indonesian Chinese
• Pointee: Mixed ancestry between an African and Caucasian
• Polygeneric: Neologism from Greek, poly-, (many) and genera (races)
• Quadroon: Generally three quarters white and one quarter black
• Quintroon: Mixed ancestry between an octoroon and a white parent
• Race of the Future: All the races are blending to become one race in the future
• Rojak or Rujak: Mixed vegetable/fruit salad
• Romani people: An ethnic group of Europe tracing their origins to medieval India
• Gypsies: An ethnic group of Europe tracing their origins to medieval India
• Redbone: Racially mixed ethnic groups in the the Sabine River region of Louisiana and Texas
• Réunion Creoles: A name given to those born on the island, of various ethnic origins on Reunion Islands
• Rhineland Bastards: Afro-German children of mixed German and African parentage
• Sri Lankan Moors: People of mixed heritage in Sri Lanka
• We-Sorts: People of “mixed-race” origins who claim descent from the Piscataway Native American population
• Zambo: Mixed ancestry between Black and Amerindian

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When Tiger Woods went on Oprah to declare himself mixed race, not black, it caused outrage across the United States. Many saw Woods’s declaration as a rejection of his black heritage. In America, a country where the ‘drops of blood’ mentality still exists – measuring black identity into halves, quarters and eighths – one drop means you are black.

Even senior political figures, such as the former Secretary of State Colin Powell, weighed in. ‘In America,’ said Powell, ‘when you look like me, you’re black.’ But Woods rejected such polarisation. His heritage is Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian. He has invented a word to describe himself: Cablinasian. The debate in the US highlighted that, hidden behind the idea that the colour of a person’s skin is irrelevant, there is a real issue for people who consider themselves neither black nor white – and, partly thanks to Woods, sport has become the focal point of the debate.

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Written by Anna Kessel, Sunday, 29 October 2006, The Observer