biracial

[bahy-rey-shuhl]

adjective

1. consisting of, representing, or combining members of two separate racial groups.

   a biracial committee on neighborhood problems.

2. having a biological mother from one racial group and a biological father from another.

   She's proudly biracial.

biracial

/ baɪˈreɪʃəl /

adjective

1. for, representing, or including members of two races, esp White and Black

Other Word Forms

• biracialism noun
• biracially adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of biracial¹

First recorded in 1920–25; bi- ¹ + racial

Example Sentences

Worse, her classmates teased her for being biracial.

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“My wife is white and Jewish, and my children are biracial,” Sonnier says while sitting in an office of the show’s writing headquarters in Sherman Oaks.

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The Silver family is interracial, Lena being black, Sarah white, and Jonah biracial, their parents having married after their respective divorces and everyone converting to Judaism.

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For a long time, he thought being a biracial comic meant he had to choose between his mother’s Mexican heritage and his father’s Armenian roots in order to find an audience.

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Senna has artfully explored what it means to be a biracial person in America, and the dark comedy of in-betweenness.

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