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what is the correct English name for someone that is half black half white or has more than one race?
17 Answers
- Anonymous2 decades ago
Mixed
- Anonymous2 decades ago
isnt it "biracial" for a half-black/half-white person and "multiracial" for someone with more than 2 races...
- Anonymous2 decades ago
Mixed.
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- 2 decades ago
Not only is "mulatto" NOT the correct contemporary term, but the above answerer didn't even spell it right.
If you don't know how to use a word correctly, don't even try.
- quatt47Lv 72 decades ago
Mixed-race. When you are quarter black you are a quadroon and one eighth black, octoroon.
- Anonymous2 decades ago
mulatto...is for half black/half white.
and yea, biracial id mixed races.
- 2 decades ago
they are right from language perspective but most scientists agree thatthe ideaof race is amyth anyway
