mixed race
Multiple ethnic backgrounds
Mixed race describes a person whose parents or ancestors come from different racial backgrounds: mixed race families, She identifies as mixed race.
The term gained currency as attitudes toward racial categories evolved, replacing older terms like "mulatto" or "half-breed" that now carry offensive connotations.
Also appears hyphenated as an adjective: a mixed-race couple.
Inherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- parentageFamily line origin
- genealogyStudy of family descent
family tree · descent · genetics · roots · ethnicity · forebears · ancestors · kinship
State of fitting in
- self-identityOne's sense of oneself
- dual heritageHaving two distinct ancestries
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
- passingMoving by or temporary
colorism · othering · visibility · representation · authenticity · acceptance · erasure · ambiguity
Between different ethnic groups
- intermarriageWedding between different groups
- miscegenationCross-racial intimate relations
- exogamyUnion outside one's clan
- couplingJoint between systems
partnership · blended family · transracial adoption · Loving v Virginia · anti-miscegenation · outmarriage
Including multiple ethnic traditions
- biculturalOf two cultural backgrounds
- fusionJoining into unity
- blendingCombining into uniformity
- hybridityMixed-origin quality
creolization · syncretism · intermingling · cross-cultural · cosmopolitan · pluralistic · melting pot · mosaic
Minor discriminatory remarks
- hair textureHow strands look and feel
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- skin toneBody's surface coloration
- ambiguousHaving multiple interpretations
fetishization · exoticization · stereotyping · assumptions · belonging nowhere · chameleon · shapeshifting · not enough
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
genealogy · family tree · descent · genetics · roots · ethnicity · forebears · ancestors · kinship · inheritance
belonging
State of fitting in
- self-identityOne's sense of oneself
- dual heritageHaving two distinct ancestries
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
passing · colorism · othering · visibility · representation · authenticity · acceptance · erasure · ambiguity · checkbox
interracial
Between different ethnic groups
- intermarriageWedding between different groups
- miscegenationCross-racial intimate relations
- exogamyUnion outside one's clan
coupling · partnership · blended family · transracial adoption · Loving v Virginia · anti-miscegenation · outmarriage
multicultural
Including multiple ethnic traditions
- biculturalOf two cultural backgrounds
- fusionJoining into unity
- blendingCombining into uniformity
hybridity · creolization · syncretism · intermingling · cross-cultural · cosmopolitan · pluralistic · melting pot · mosaic · tapestry
microaggressions
Minor discriminatory remarks
- hair textureHow strands look and feel
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- skin toneBody's surface coloration
ambiguous · fetishization · exoticization · stereotyping · assumptions · belonging nowhere · chameleon · shapeshifting · not enough
- Cultural Fusionfusion cuisine, fusion jazz, fusion dance, syncretism, hybridity
- ethnic groupsJews, Arabs, Chinese, Irish, Greeks
- Mestizo Cultureindigenous roots, ancestry, cultural pride, casta, casta system
- Caribbean identityAfro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Creole, mulatto, mestizo
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
mixed raceunmixed
Not combined together
purebred · full-blooded · pure · homogeneous · unblended
race, mixed, mixer, mixing, racial, unmixed, multiracial, biracial, racially