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Half-Caste" is a poem by Guyanese poet John Agard that looks at people's ideas and usage of the term "half-caste", a derogatory term for people of multiracial descent. The poem is included within Agard's 2005 collection of the same name, in which he explores a range of issues affecting black and mixed-race identity in the UK. The poem is ...
His poems "Half Caste" and "Checking Out Me History" have been featured in the Edexcel and AQA English GCSE anthologies respectively, meaning that many students (aged 13–16) have studied his work for their GCSE English qualifications. [9]
Half Caste (poem) Half-elf (also "halfling" under some uses of the term), a human–elf hybrid featured in many works of fantasy literature and, as a character class and/or a description of a non-playing character, in many role-playing games derived from or inspired by the fantasy genre
The word quadroon was borrowed from the French quarteron and the Spanish cuarterón, both of which have their root in the Latin quartus, meaning "a quarter".. Similarly, the Spanish cognate cuarterón is used to describe cuarterón de mulato or morisco (someone whose racial origin is three-quarters white and one-quarter black) and cuarterón de mestizo or castizo, (someone whose racial origin ...
The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The description of the couple as "Beautiful People" is perhaps ironic as the term was first used to describe those had held countercultural ideals during the 1960s. [ 2 ]
The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools ...
Half-caste are people of mixed ethnicity. Half Caste may also refer to: Half Caste (horse), the winner of the 1859 Grand National Steeplechase "Half Caste" (poem), a poem by John Agard; Half-Caste, a 2004 horror film; Half-Caste Act 1886 (title in Victoria), or Aborigines Protection Act 1886 (title in Western Australia)
Someone has suggested that 'half caste' and 'half-caste' articles be merged. I don't know of any examples where the absence or presence of the hyphen makes a difference to the way the term was/is used, or changes its context, so I think that they should be merged. Any thoughts? Brucehassan 14:50, 12 November 2005 (UTC)