Sentence examples for mixed person from inspiring English sources

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As a mixed person, even though I was convinced by the evidence, I found it problematic.

In the 21st century, Dolezal found a space where she could excel by passing as a mixed person of partial African ancestry.

She portrays herself as a relatively light-skinned mixed person, which carries it's own pitfalls and privileges within African-American communities as well as in wider U.S. society.

True, Dolezal laid claim to a history and legacy that do not immediately appear on her family tree, but what if she decided to claim her Native American lineage or identify as a mixed person in this regard?

She benefitted from the inherited privileges of whiteness while growing up and through most of her adult life, then she later exploited light-skinned privilege while identifying as an ethnically mixed person.

As a mixed-race person, I was initially disturbed that another mixed person's identity was being challenged here in Spokane.

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During the 2008 campaign season, British commentator Yasmin Alhibai Brown was keen to emphasise that, in her view, Barack Obama is not black but "mixed race", and quoted an American psychologist as saying: "The existence of racially mixed persons challenges long-held notions about the biological, moral and social meaning of race".

Slavery, for example, mixed persons from numerous tribes in tight living quarters, resulting in a shared musical tradition that was enriched through further hybridizing with elements of indigenous, Latin and European music.

On the one hand, as the population is highly mixed, persons who identify themselves as Caucasian may also have African and/or Indigenous ancestry and vice versa.

"He accepted that the words of the tweet were insulting and conceded that the term could only be used when referring to a black or mixed race person and not a person with white skin.

I'm a mixed up person.

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