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That, of course, sidestepped the real question — what role did racism, or even just race, play in a culture where the term “half-caste” is still used in some places with a completely straight face?

How many had borne half-caste babies they neither remembered nor wished to remember?

Aboriginal children, particularly “half-caste” kids, were literally stolen from their families and placed with white families.

But this seemed to count for little in a world which, for all its modernity, still believed in labels such as “half-caste”, “full-blood” and “mixed race”.

Instead of wrestling with a monstrous, chemically induced id, however, Latif’s soft-spoken Jekyll struggled with his rage from a lifetime of personal and professional derision on account of his “half-caste” identity.