Example sentences for: mixed-race

How can you use “mixed-race” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Virginia began categorizing a child as free or slave according to the mother's status (which was easier to determine than the father's), and so in 1691 the assembly passed a law to make sure that women didn't bear mixed-race children.

  • The PBS broadcast last month of An American Love Story --a 10-hour film about an interracial family--spawned a great deal of chatter to the effect that mixed-race couplings were the wave of the future.

  • There was no economic infrastructure outside the plantation system, and power remained in the hands of a small minority of white and mixed-race individuals.

  • (Did that other mixed-race Alexander, Pushkin, make the cut?)

  • In October 1865 at Morant Bay, there was another uprising, led by Baptist minister Paul Bogle and by George Gordon, a mulatto (mixed-race) landowner.


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