multiracial

Etymology

multi- + racial

adj

1. Composed of, or having a mixture of, multiple races.

noun

1. An individual of more than one race.
   Hawaii, Obama’s childhood home, is the most diverse state in the Union: 21 percent of residents identified as “Hapa,” a Hawaiian word meaning “half” that has gone from being a slur against mixed-race Asians to a point of pride —— and has increasingly been adopted by multiracials of all kinds on the Mainland. March 23, 2008, Peggy Orenstein, “Mixed Messenger”, in New York Times