Sentence examples for biracial from inspiring English sources
The word 'biracial' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a person who is of two different ethnicities or who is a combination of two different races. For example, "The child is biracial, with a father of African descent and a mother of European descent."
adjective
Of or pertaining to two races
Noah used his biracial identity to challenge South Africa's race issues, using personal anecdotes from his own life.
Growing up biracial in the formerly segregated township of Soweto, Noah once said his birth was a crime.
He is biracial: Appalachia is white.
America is also no longer a biracial country.
Like much of the South, the city was biracial, with roughly equal numbers of blacks and whites.
Mr Obama is biracial, like many of us African Americans and Hispanics.
White is for them a pure category, and being biracial or interracial makes one absolutely non-white.
After the end of the Korean war in 1953, biracial children who were the product of fleeting wartime unions between foreign servicemen and South Korean women in the 1950s were abandoned to drift in South Korea's ravaged cities.
In 1946 a couple in a Manhattan apartment building asked their janitor, a biracial Jamaican New Yorker newly returned from naval service in the second world war, to install a set in their flat.
She herself pushed for the law because "I was concerned about where we lived".John Campbell, chairman of the Wilson Appearance Commission, the nine-member biracial city panel that recommended the law, testily describes as "nonsense" the idea that the ordinance is aimed at minorities and the poor.
What is driving these voters' visceral dislike of our biracial president, the child of a mixed marriage between a white woman and a black African?
