Tag Archives: Half-caste

Next Time Call Me Mixed-Race!

By Internet Source | February 25, 2010

I have both white and black cousins, but best of all I have two places that I can call home.
How do you categorise someone who is not 100% white nor 100% black, without offending that person?
This is the debate that I walked into the other day, when a woman pointed at me and [...]

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Race Ebonics – Different names, the same people!

By Ross | May 22, 2008

All around the world, proud individuals of mixed ancestry, heritage, religion and heritage define and identify themselves that are particular to their country and culture. Some of the words are offensive but they do not in any way reflect the ideas, aims and principles of the Beyond Identity family. We are people because of other [...]

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Poor little mixed-race girls

By Internet Source | March 4, 2007

Personally speaking, being re-branded from half-caste to mixed race came as welcome relief. Yet, try as we might to change our image, we tragic ‘mulatresses’ remain as doggedly woeful as the salivating madwoman in Mr Rochester’s attic. Confused, miserable and in perpetual limbo, we are now apparently abundant in the world of celebrity.There is [...]

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Mixed-race people are the most visible sign of racial harmony

By Internet Source | February 25, 2007

The future’s bright for mixed-race Britons, but some people are still stuck in the past.

If you are half-Japanese you are Haafu; if you are African Indian you are Dougla; if you are half Samoan you are Afatasi. All round the globe, a fat and happy glossary of terms for multiracial persons is emerging; but those [...]

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