{"id":33394,"date":"2013-09-03T04:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T04:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33394"},"modified":"2014-04-17T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:16:25","slug":"the-social-evolution-of-the-term-%e2%80%9chalf-caste%e2%80%9d-in-britain-the-paradox-of-its-use-as-both-derogatory-racial-category-and-self-descriptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33394","title":{"rendered":"The Social Evolution of the Term \u201cHalf-Caste\u201d in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/johs.12033\" target=\"_blank\">The Social Evolution of the Term \u201cHalf-Caste\u201d in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1467-6443\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Historical Sociology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/johs.2013.26.issue-4\/issuetoc\">Volume 26, Issue 4<\/a> (December 2013)<br \/>\npages 503\u2013526<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/johs.12033\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/johs.12033<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/about\/emeritus\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter J. Aspinall<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Reader in Population Health<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a>\u201d had its origins in nineteenth century British colonial administrations, emerging in the twentieth century as the quotidian label for those whose ancestry comprised multiple ethnic\/racial groups, usually encompassing \u201cWhite\u201d. From the 1920s\u20131960s the term was used in Britain as a derogatory racial category associated with the moral condemnation of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>\u201d. <strong>Yet today the label continues to be used as a self-descriptor and even survives in some official contexts.<\/strong> This paradox \u2013 of both derogatory racial category and self descriptor \u2013 is explored in the context of the term&#8217;s social evolution, drawing upon the theoretical constructs of the internal-external dialectic of identification and labelling theory.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/johs.12033\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Evolution of the Term \u201cHalf-Caste\u201d in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 26, Issue 4 (December 2013) pages 503\u2013526 DOI: 10.1111\/johs.12033 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK The term \u201chalf-caste\u201d had its origins in nineteenth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,394,10],"tags":[521,61,1877],"class_list":["post-33394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-journal-of-historical-sociology","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}