Message
"Half-Caste" attempts to challenge the reader to reconsider their preconceptions of mixed-race identities. Agard wrote:
- "this is not as an opposition of half, half, half on a person's total human complexity implies that some sort of 'purity' has been subverted. A child of mixed race is a tangible, loving expression of human beings from different cultural backgrounds getting together - that should be seen not as something threatening, but as something enriching...."
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