Meaning of quarter-caste | Babel Free

Definitions

Having one "half-caste" parent; especially, having three Caucasian and one non-Caucasian grandparents

Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, not-comparable

Examples

“So ignorant of her job was she that one quarter-caste kiddie I pointed out she said was a halfcaste, and to prove it called the child out and asked her, as one'd speak to a prisoner in jail, wasn't her mother a lubra.”

“The issue of race discrimination in sport has been before the New Zealand public continuously for nearly four years. […] In 1959, the amateur golf champion, a boy just turned seventeen, described as a ' quarter-caste Maori,' withdrew from the New Zealand team to play in the Commonwealth championships in South Africa.”

“2000, Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families, 1800-2000, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, p. 280, https://books.google.ca/books?id=jF69BwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Sister Kate's Quarter Caste Children's Home, opened in 1933, was the site for implementing the first stages of grooming young, 'nearly-white' children for 'ultimate absorption' into the white community.”

“It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.”

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