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In fact, racism lies just beneath the surface and it "bubbles out" when Aboriginal identity is discussed. Today these words are considered offensive and racist. These "one-dimensional models of Aboriginality" pervaded literature of that time and were used in an effort to categorise Aboriginal people to determine if they were allowed or denied certain benefits.

a ' octoroon' as someone whose great-grandfather or great-grandmother was Aboriginal.

a ' quadroon' or ' quarter-caste' as someone with an Aboriginal grandfather or grandmother,.

a ' half-caste' as someone with one white parent,.

a ' full-blood' as a person who had no white blood,.

įrom 1910 to the 1940s white people classified Indigenous people into castes.

Caste categories in an identity card used in the 1940s.