Noel Coward has a song called “Half Caste Woman.

…n Britain in the 1970s, it was common to refer to Afro-Caribbean people as “colored.” Yes, really. I shudder at remembering that bi-racial people were often called “half-caste.”

Why I’m Trying to Stop Using the Term ‘Black’

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Margie Pearl

1 min readJun 15, 2020

Noel Coward has a song called “Half Caste Woman.”

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