coloureds
Fabrics with pigment
Coloureds is the plural of coloured, an offensive or dated term for non-white people, particularly Black people.
The word was standard in earlier centuries but is now considered racist in American and British English.
The hotel didn't accept coloureds.
In South Africa, Coloured (usually capitalized) refers specifically to people of mixed racial ancestry and remains an official census category, though its acceptability varies by context.
Cape Town's slave-descended community
- AfrikaansSouth African Germanic language
- Cape TownSouth African legislative capital
- mixed heritageDiverse ancestral origins
- multiracialOf multiple ethnicities
ancestry · community · identity · Cape Flats
Of multiple ethnicities
- biracialHaving two racial ancestries
- multiracialOf multiple ethnicities
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
- mestizoBiracial Latin American
Eurasian · interracial · mixed heritage · dual heritage · miscegenation · amalgamation · mulatto
Grouping by ancestry or ethnicity
- pencil testEarly animation draft review
- Group Areas ActLaw dictating residence by race
- racial hierarchyRanking groups by ancestry
- pass lawsFormally adopt binding rules
forced removals · House of Representatives · racial segregation · non-white · second-class citizen
Insulting group label
- pejorativeTerm expressing disapproval
- derogatoryExpressing criticism or disrespect
- outdatedNo longer in use
- stigmatizedMarked with social shame
taboo · demeaning · disparaging · NAACP
Racial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- racial separationDividing people by ethnicity
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
- integrationCombining into a whole
Cape Malay
Cape Town's slave-descended community
- AfrikaansSouth African Germanic language
- Cape TownSouth African legislative capital
- mixed heritageDiverse ancestral origins
multiracial · ancestry · community · identity · Cape Flats
mixed race
Of multiple ethnicities
- biracialHaving two racial ancestries
- multiracialOf multiple ethnicities
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
mestizo · Eurasian · interracial · mixed heritage · dual heritage · miscegenation · amalgamation · mulatto
racial classification
Grouping by ancestry or ethnicity
- pencil testEarly animation draft review
- Group Areas ActLaw dictating residence by race
- racial hierarchyRanking groups by ancestry
pass laws · forced removals · House of Representatives · racial segregation · non-white · second-class citizen
slur
Insulting group label
- pejorativeTerm expressing disapproval
- derogatoryExpressing criticism or disrespect
- outdatedNo longer in use
stigmatized · taboo · demeaning · disparaging · NAACP
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- racial separationDividing people by ethnicity
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
colouredswhites
Pale-colored items collectively
white people · Europeans · blacks · Afrikaners · Africans
- rose-coloured glassesNaively optimistic perspective
- coloured pencilsPigmented graphite alternatives for drawing
- rose-coloured spectaclesExcessively optimistic viewpoint
- coloured outside the linesIgnored expected constraints