Mr Cameron reflected on adoption rules, saying barriers to mixed-race adoption were "wrong" and would be changed.
Crime in the Cape Flats, a Coloured (mixed-race) slum, has exploded in the past few years.
The Census Bureau predicts that there will be many more mixed-race people in the future.
Even in the most youthful, trendy and relaxed parts of town, there are very few mixed-race couples.
Its backing is biggest among mixed-race coloureds, who make up about 9% of the 49m South Africans.
And that's all before we start to consider sub-groups, mixed-race, and all the other issues around racial categorisation.
They point out that the original pueblo of Los Angeles was founded by blacks, Latinos and mixed-race people, for God's sake.
Mixed-race yes, but I couldn't fathom that my race could make me the "wrong kind of girl" for anyone.
He next wants to purge the names of four mixed-race New Orleanians who owned slaves despite being part-black themselves.
The prime minister has vowed to tackle "absurd barriers to mixed-race adoption" which he says trap many children in care.
By most standards, American rates of mixed-race marriage have been low: one in 23 marriages in 1990, up to one in 15 in 2000.
In the West more than a fifth of white children attended mixed-race schools, with at least 10% of students from three or more ethnic groups.
Of those, half must go to very poor students, and black, mixed-race or Amerindian students must be admitted according to their share of the local population.
In KwaZulu-Natal, a dispute over land owned by the mixed-race descendants of a Scottish settler has led to annual arson attacks on their fields of sugar cane.
Two mixed-race judges had previously been members of the court, but Mr Barbosa said he was the first one who could be "widely recognised as a black man".
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The mixed-race population has increased, due to both inter-racial marriages and Census Bureau forms in the past two headcounts that allow people to identify themselves as more than one race.
Though its supporters are still mainly white, a third of its 60 members of parliament are now black or coloured (mixed-race), as were many of its candidates in these local polls.
"Baggage, " by the Cape Town-based artist Randy Hartzenberg, is an abstract portrayal of the white-minority government's campaigns in the 1970s to force black, mixed-race and ethnically Indian South Africans into separate townships.
In The Ballad of Lee Cotton, Christopher Wilson tells the story of the son of a mixed-race mother and Icelandic father, whose background - which makes him white - sets him apart from his friends in Eureka, Mississippi.
Its premier, Hernus Kriel, once served as police minister but came to shun the national arena in order to build support among the province's minority white population and the Coloured (mixed-race) voters who make up more than half its electorate.
In a country where 79% of the 50m-strong population are black, 9% white, another 9% coloured (mixed-race) and 3% of Indian or Asian descent, the still white-dominated but increasingly multiracial DA ended up doing rather well, increasing its support in every municipality it contested.
Jessica Ennis, the victorious, mixed-race heptathlete, and Mo Farah, the long-distance champion and Muslim who arrived from Somalia as a child (and who prayed on the track after he won the 10, 000 metres) may have some therapeutic influence on attitudes to race and immigration.
Gates says Yamaguchi started out as an experiment in the politics of art and race: What would happen to his pots and bowls, which weren't selling so well, if he told people they were made by the mixed-race son of a Japanese master potter who had taught his methods to the neighbors of his black Mississippi bride?
"People of mixed race are among the fastest-growing group in the population of our country", and this is "a development with which our country is at ease", Mr Miliband said.
The trust hopes the high-profile boost will encourage more black and mixed race people to donate their bone marrow to leukaemia sufferers.
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Though race discrimination exists, Brazil is a racially-mixed society, not a racially-divided one such as the United States.
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