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Mixed race
We were half-castes in the U.K. until 2001 (2001!), when the census officially deemed us “mixed.” In US, census allowed choice of only one race until 2000! Change only really began in the wake of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case that officially legalized interracial marriage. The Loving decision overturned a trial judge’s opinion, written in 1958, that “Almighty…